Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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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 is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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

27.

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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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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 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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb, Irish

42.

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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