Motivational Quotes

Memory

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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Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Campbell, Don

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

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Herbert, George

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Rogers, Will

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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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