Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

- Basile

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Irish

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Didion, Joan

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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano