Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Michel de Montaigne

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Trachman, Jay

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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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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

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Twain, Mark

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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

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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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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Proverb, Irish

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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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