Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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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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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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

34.

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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Sontag, Susan

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

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Mark Twain

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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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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Samuel

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