The things that stick most firmly in your memory are the things that you want to forget.

——Montagneni

Recalling only the past is poor memory.

——Carroll

Memory is not wisdom; but what is wisdom without memory?

——Harper

A good way to exercise your memory is to exercise your attention.

——Edwards

The advantage of having a poor memory is that you can enjoy some beautiful things many times as if you are meeting them for the first time.

——Nietzsche

Almost no one will remember things that are not interesting to him at all.

——McDonald

What you learn with a happy mood will be remembered forever.

——Marsh

It is better to forget it and smile than to remember it and be sad.

——Rosita

Forgiving is easy, forgetting is difficult.

——Platon

Tainted memory is an eternal poison.

——Charlotte Bronte

Memory is the only keeper of knowledge.

——Sidney

Everyone’s memory is their own private literature.

——Hexco

Gratitude is the memory of the soul.

——Bill Beattie

Let us not burden our memories with the sorrows of the past.

——Shakespeare

There is a noble kind of forgetfulness, which is not remembering old evils.

——Symonds