Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pavese, Cesare

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Paul, Jean

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Alexander Smith

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Proverb

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Dante Alighieri

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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