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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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

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

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Didion, Joan

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Mark Twain

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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

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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 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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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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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay