Motivational Quotes

Memory

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

- Trachman, Jay

Best Quotes about Memory

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Rogers, Will

14.

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

15.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

16.

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

Benjamin, Walter

17.

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

18.

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

19.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

20.

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

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

23.

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

24.

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

Herbert, George

25.

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

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

28.

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

Basile

29.

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

Coward, Noel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Didion, Joan

33.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

34.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

35.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

36.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

Smith, Alexander

41.

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

Michel de Montaigne

42.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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 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

45.

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.