Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Paul, Jean

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

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Proverb, Irish

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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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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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Twain, Mark

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Basile

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Pope, Alexander

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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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