Motivational Quotes

Memory

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Connolly, Cyril

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Campbell, Don

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

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Didion, Joan

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Proverb

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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

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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 is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Mark Twain