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

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Smith, Alexander

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dante Alighieri

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Pope, Alexander

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Trachman, Jay

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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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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen