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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.MemoryQuotations by Elbert Hubbard
Jane Austen "If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; ...
One lives in the world’s memory only by what they have done in the world’s behalf. Proverb One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.MemoryQuotations by Proverb
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.MemoryQuotations by James Branch Cabell
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? Martin Tupper Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?MemoryQuotations by Martin Tupper