Motivational Quotes

Memory

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Memory

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Twain, Mark

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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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

19.

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Irish

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Pope, Alexander

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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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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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