Motivational Quotes

Memory

Don't remember what you can infer.

- Tennant, Harry

Best Quotes about Memory

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

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pope, Alexander

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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

Didion, Joan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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

33.

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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Coward, Noel

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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