Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Proverb

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rogers, Will

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Proverb, Irish

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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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 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

32.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Campbell, Don

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.