Quotes About Forgetting

The next thing that happened was that he forgot the last thing that happened.

Children are apt to forget to remember.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

El misterio es éste: ¿por qué yo quedé mutilada y ella no? Me siento recién salida de una catástrofe. ¿Por qué no olvido? No sé por dónde empezar a olvidar. Aun estoy asombrada de no estar loca. Pero ¿se puede vivir siempre así, asombrada, enloqueciendo de asombro?

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Mary: How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

?tiin?ele sunt un bun de pre? dragii mei, dar livezile, copacii ??tia, ne-nva?? sus ?i tare cea mai frumoas? dintre toate ?tiin?ele: uitarea a ceea ce ?tim.

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

The collective memory of America is short.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! William Wordsworth - Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will die, and who will ever understand any of this? And maybe we remember nothing most of all when we put our hands on our hearts and carry on about not forgetting.

There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our Life's Star Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness. And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy.2