Forgetting Quotes

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

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.

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

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