Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Fermi, Enrico

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Mark Twain

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Coward, Noel

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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