Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Benjamin, Walter

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Coward, Noel

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Didion, Joan

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Trachman, Jay

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De