Motivational Quotes

Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Didion, Joan

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Mark Twain

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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 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