Memory Quotes

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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Albert Einstein

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

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

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Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of

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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth rem

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

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I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for th

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything th

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Willa Cather, My Antonia

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memo

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinion

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Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the mos

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom

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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no o

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

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The m

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.

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Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individ

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that g

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

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

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

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

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Alexander Chase

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscio

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.

Wilder Penfield

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

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

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