Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Mark Twain

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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

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

Herbert, George

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Didion, Joan

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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

25.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 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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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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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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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett