Motivational Quotes

Memory

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

- Porchia, Antonio

Best Quotes about Memory

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fulghum, Robert

Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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

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.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Didion, Joan

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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.