Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Memory

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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

Alexander Smith

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Mark Twain

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.