Motivational Quotes

Memory

Don't remember what you can infer.

- Tennant, Harry

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Campbell, Don

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

Trachman, Jay

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

Proverb

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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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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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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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 good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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