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

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Hazlitt, William

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Herbert, George

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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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Russell, Peter

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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 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

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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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 with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Johnson, Samuel