Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Twain, Mark

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert