Motivational Quotes

Memory

Lord, keep my memory green.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Rogers, Will

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

12.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Pavese, Cesare

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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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

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Coward, Noel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

45.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

46.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan