Motivational Quotes

Memory

We have all forgot more than we remember.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Mark Twain

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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

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

Campbell, Don

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Michel de Montaigne

10.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

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

Didion, Joan

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

30.

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

Paul, Jean

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Kingsolver, Barbara