Life Quote by Grace Paley

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

— Henry David Thoreau

“if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be…

— Neil Postman

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

— Rodman Philbrick

“Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.”

— Leah Bobet

“It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.”

— Marjorie Garber

“Remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.”

— James Gleick

“The memory has a marvellous capacity to remember the forgotten, its existence and its stalking, and thus allow us to stay alert when we…

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—”

— Daniel Kahneman

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

— Ally Condie

Remember - purpose is shared with others.

— Mastin Kipp