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

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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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

Proverb

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Mark Twain

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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

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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 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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Campbell, Don

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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

Dante Alighieri

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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