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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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

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

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

Coward, Noel

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Mark Twain

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Twain, Mark

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Didion, Joan

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Rogers, Will

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover