Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

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

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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 is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

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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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's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Coward, Noel

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Rogers, Will

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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 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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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

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mark Twain