Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

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

Proverb

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Campbell, Don

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Coward, Noel

27.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

34.

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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Connolly, Cyril