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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

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

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Alexander

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Rogers, Will

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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 the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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