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Quotes About Remembering

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Good God, what did he not remember?
~ Tammara Webber
Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
~ Linus Pauling
I have a great memory.
~ Carol Burnett
We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
~ Ellen G. White
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.
~ John Burgoyne
History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.
~ Matt Smith
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.
~ Frank Zappa
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
~ John Still
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
~ Studs Terkel
The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
~ Phoebe Stone
The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.
~ David Whyte
Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.
~ Steven Wright
I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
~ Spike Lee
Do you remember what I forgot?
~ Erica Goros
Only remembering that a self in exile is still a self, as a bell unstruck for years is still a bell.
~ Jane Hirshfield
The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because I thought I'd forget. Then I knew that was ridiculous and cried because I remembered. But the truth is that one is the same as the other. Remembering and forgetting are the same bloody thing. He is not alive any more. That's all there is to know. There is no purpose to any of it. The point is there is no point.
~ Janice Galloway
I tell her I won't [forget who I am], even though I'm still trying to figure it out.
~ Jasmine Paul
La cosa più intollerabile è che si trasformi in passato chi si ricorda come futuro
~ Javier Marías
in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real (so he smiles smiling)but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment The is blond with small hands & everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing
~ E.E. Cummings
I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting.
~ E.E. Cummings
Why is it that when you lose something, it is always in the last place that you look for it? Because of course, once you remember, you always stop looking.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
~ Albert J. Nock
Rather the flight of the bird passing and leaving no trace Than creatures passing, leaving tracks on the ground. The bird goes by and forgets, which is as it should be. The creature, no longer there, and so, perfectly useless, Shows it was there -- also perfectly useless. Remembering betrays Nature, Because yesterday's Nature is not Nature. What's past is nothing and remembering is not seeing. Fly, bird fly away; teach me to disappear.
~ Alberto Caeiro