#forgetting

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

#culture #forgetting #great #learning #many

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

#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

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

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#art #fine #fine art #forgetting #hear

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. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#forgetting #wearing

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

— Bernard Meltzer

#forgetting #give #remembering #take #those

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#dying #forgetting #how #humility #knowledge

لا بدّ لأحدهم أن يفطمك عن ماضيك و يشفيك من ادمانك لذكريات تنخر فى جسمك و تصيبك بترقّق الأحلام. النسيان هو الكالسيوم الوحيد الذى يقاوم هشاشة العاشق أمام الفراق ↗

— أحلام مستغانمي

#love #sadness #love

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain. ↗

— Malcolm Lowry

#black #forgetting #i #inevitable #long