Blame Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

— George Santayana

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it…

— George Eliot

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

— James Stephens

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Time is not a solid, linear thing, no matter how much man tries to pretend it is. Time has humored us, much like a…

— Amy S. foster

Time flies, and what is past is done.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we…

— Blaise Pascal

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

— Katherine Center

In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get…

— Deepak Chopra

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta