Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

17.

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

18.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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 mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee