Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Coward, Noel

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Proverb

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

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

13.

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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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 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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Benjamin, Walter

19.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

24.

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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Bumper Sticker

28.

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

Alexander Smith

29.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

30.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

34.

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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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

36.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

37.

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

38.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Didion, Joan

49.

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

Connolly, Cyril