Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Memory

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fermi, Enrico

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Allen, Fred A.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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

15.

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

16.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

17.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

18.

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

19.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

21.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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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

25.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

31.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb

40.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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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