Top Forgetting Quotes
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
Mary Stewart
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
John Gray
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch
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The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper 
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera
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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.
Joyce Appleby
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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.'
Immanuel Kant
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire
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One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze
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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Albert J. Nock
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
David Herbert Lawrence
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Jack Dempsey
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Popular Forgetting Authors
Marcus Tullius CiceroSamuel ButlerAlexander PopeDavid Herbert LawrenceRobert Louis StevensonCharles BaudelaireBryant H. McGillChuck PalahniukLaurence J. PeterMignon McLaughlinJohn McCarthyJuliette BinocheSydney SmithSidonie Gabrielle ColetteImmanuel Kant
Iris MurdochWilliam WordsworthMilan KunderaJohannes TaulerDiane SawyerHelen HayesDavid BrinAlbert J. NockPaulo CoelhoRobert EnglundPierre SchaefferRaoul VaneigemArthur KoestlerEvelyn UnderhillChris Lowe
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