Motivational Quotes

Memory

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Trachman, Jay

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Coward, Noel

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Paul, Jean

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Herbert, George

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Twain, Mark

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Irish

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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