Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Trachman, Jay

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Rogers, Will

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lewis, Joe E.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Lewis Carroll

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dante Alighieri

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

William Shakespeare

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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

Trachman, Jay

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mark Twain

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Proverb, Irish

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