Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Herbert, George

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coward, Noel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Mark Twain

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

Fermi, Enrico

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Trachman, Jay

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert