Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memories are all we really own.

- Lieberman, Elias

Best Quotes about Memory

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

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Smith, Alexander

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

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Proverb

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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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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 one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Twain, Mark

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Dante Alighieri

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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