Motivational Quotes

Memory

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Best Quotes about Memory

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

Johnson, Samuel

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Smith, Alexander

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Allen, Fred A.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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 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

11.

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

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Bumper Sticker

25.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Didion, Joan

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Twain, Mark

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

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pavese, Cesare