Motivational Quotes

Memory

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Best Quotes about Memory

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

Rogers, Will

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

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Didion, Joan

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

Herbert, George

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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

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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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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lewis Carroll

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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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 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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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