A Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll
American - Lawyer
August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

Horace

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

John Gerard

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

Giacomo Casanova

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Mason Cooley

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Romare Bearden

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Arthur Helps

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

James Carroll

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

Adrian Forty

The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

Socrates

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Goswami Kriyananda

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

James Stephens

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

James Stephens

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Gertrude Stein

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Rajneesh

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