Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Pope, Alexander

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Johnson, Samuel

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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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

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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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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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 wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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