Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Fermi, Enrico

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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

Coward, Noel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

William Shakespeare

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Twain, Mark

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.