Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Pope, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

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

Trachman, Jay

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Michel de Montaigne

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

11.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

12.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

16.

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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rogers, Will

21.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

28.

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

Proverb

30.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

31.

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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

33.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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

38.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

39.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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[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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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