Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

Alexander Smith

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

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Paul, Jean

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Proverb

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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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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn