Motivational Quotes

Memory

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Didion, Joan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bumper Sticker

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis Carroll

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Twain, Mark

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Trachman, Jay