Motivational Quotes

Memory

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Rogers, Will

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Coward, Noel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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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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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare