Motivational Quotes

Memory

If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

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Best Quotes about Memory

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

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Proverb

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

If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

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

Pavese, Cesare

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Herbert, George

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

William Shakespeare

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin