Memory

(244 votes)   When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(226 votes)   Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(224 votes)   Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(190 votes)   Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch
1880-1957, Polish-born American Writer

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(180 votes)   Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(172 votes)   It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(148 votes)   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.''

Peter Russell

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

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(141 votes)   The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(114 votes)   The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(113 votes)   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.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(102 votes)   That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist

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(100 votes)   Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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