Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Connolly, Cyril

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Mark Twain

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Coward, Noel

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lewis Carroll