Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Mark Twain

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Campbell, Don

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

Bumper Sticker

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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Paul, Jean

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Twain, Mark

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb

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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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[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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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

39.

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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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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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 tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen