Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Cicero on Memory
“We forget our pleasures and remember our sufferings.”
~ Cicero
Penelope Lively on Memory
“I have learned to be suspicious of memory–my own, anyone’s–but to accord it considerable respect. Whether accurate or not, it can subvert a life.”
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time
Charlie Munger on Mistakes and Memory
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you’re trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn’t remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?
~ Charlie Munger
Cormac McCarthy on Memory
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”