Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Memory

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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

Lewis Carroll

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Campbell, Don

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

11.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

16.

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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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