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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Basile

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Coward, Noel

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Lewis Carroll

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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

Dante Alighieri

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Russell, Peter

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Rogers, Will

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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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 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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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

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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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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen