Motivational Quotes

Memory

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Memory

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Alexander

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

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

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Pope, Alexander

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Dante Alighieri

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Alexander Smith

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Didion, Joan

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

Proverb

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

Basile

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Coward, Noel

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

William Shakespeare