Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Lewis Carroll

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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

12.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Bumper Sticker

15.

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

Campbell, Don

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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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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 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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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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.

29.

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

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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