Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Memory

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

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

Basile

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

11.

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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

25.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

34.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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

Didion, Joan

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.