Quotes with forgetting

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

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  • Iris Murdoch Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Elizabeth Bibesco Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
    Elizabeth Bibesco
    British writer, and Romanian princess (1897 - 1945)
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  • Bernard Meltzer Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Albert J. Nock 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.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Albert J. Nock 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
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Mark Twain Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alexander Pope How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Buddy Wakefield I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list. I keep forgetting to wander and have fun. I know I'm transparent but my insecurities are in all the right places, so go ahead, have a look.
    Poetry Gahndis Autobiography
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I've a grand memory for forgetting.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Aldous Huxley It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Buddy Wakefield Jordan tattoos the words forgive me in thick black letters down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember not to hate himself so much. What he keeps forgetting is that there is life after survival.
    Poetry Human the Death Dance
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock 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.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • William Wordsworth 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 comet 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.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Paul Cézanne Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
    Paul Cézanne
    French painter (1839 - 1906)
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  • Leonard Cohen Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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