Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Memory

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

William Shakespeare

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

Paul, Jean

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Coward, Noel

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

Rogers, Will