Motivational Quotes

Memory

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

- Fermi, Enrico

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Alexander Smith

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Rogers, Will

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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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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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

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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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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