Motivational Quotes

Memory

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Memory

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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

Paul, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

Coward, Noel

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mark Twain

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Michel de Montaigne

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