Motivational Quotes

Memory

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Memory

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare