#forgetting

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

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. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#always #being #dash #ends #every

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

It's difficult to wait for someone. It's difficult to forget someone. But the most difficult thing is to decide, whether to wait or to forget. ↗

— Hannah Mae Bencio

#decision #forgetting #love-hurts #waiting #love

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#forgiveness #grudges #memory #savant-syndrome #forgiveness

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#forgetting-the-past #inspirational #memory #inspirational

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#divorce #families #family-saga #forgetting #life

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier. ↗

— Jay Asher

#life #life