Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

—Barbara Kingsolver

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

—Benjamin Franklin

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.

—Gary Ryan Blair

It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe — though we didn’t know it at the time. We know it now because it’s in the past, because we have survived.

—Susan Sontag

How confusing the beams from memory’s lamp are; / One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. / What is the secret of the trick? / How did I get so old so quick?

—Ogden Nash

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

—J.M. Barrie

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

—Austin O’Malley

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; / The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place.

—Emily Dickinson

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for the future.

—Lewis B. Smedes

The existence of forgetting has never been proved:  We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

—Margaret Fairless Barber