Motivational Quotes

Memory

We have all forgot more than we remember.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Didion, Joan

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

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

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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Mark Twain

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Coward, Noel

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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