Motivational Quotes

Memory

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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.

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

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.