Motivational Quotes

Memory

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Basile

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

Rogers, Will

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.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Rogers, Will

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Mark Twain

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De