As quoted in Unleashing Intellectual Capital (2000) by Charles Ehin, p. 99
“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
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This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variant: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
“So you must always remember / that time ends the beauty”
Original: Ainsi vous doit-il souvenir / Que le temps finit la beauté
Source: Oeuvres poétiques
“You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.”