Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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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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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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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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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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mark Twain

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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 can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rogers, Will

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George