Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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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

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fermi, Enrico

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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