Capacity Quote by Anthony Douglas

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

— Rodman Philbrick

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

— Jules Renard

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where…

— Natasha Trethewey

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig

The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

— Alfred Capus

It has never been a question of who forgets, but sometimes there's a definite pain on being the only one who remembers everything..

— Dev

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

— Joseph Pulitzer

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May