Motivational Quotes

Memory

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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Best Quotes about Memory

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

Didion, Joan

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Samuel

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

Basile

11.

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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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

13.

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

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

16.

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

Michel de Montaigne

17.

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

18.

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

19.

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

24.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

25.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

26.

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

Coward, Noel

27.

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

28.

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

29.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

33.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

35.

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 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 best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

38.

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

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

Herbert, George

42.

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

Dante Alighieri

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

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

Lewis Carroll

45.

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Fermi, Enrico