Motivational Quotes

Memory

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

- Gellhorn, Martha

Best Quotes about Memory

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Benjamin, Walter

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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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

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

31.

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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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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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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

37.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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