Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Paul, Jean

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

14.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Twain, Mark

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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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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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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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

Rogers, Will

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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