Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

Russell, Peter

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

Williams, Tennessee

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Mark Twain

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Campbell, Don

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Twain, Mark

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

Herbert, George

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Coward, Noel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will