Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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

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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 can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Mark Twain

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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 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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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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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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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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