Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

Hazlitt, William

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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Paul, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mark Twain

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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.