Motivational Quotes

Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

17.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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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

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Didion, Joan

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Mark Twain

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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