#forgetting

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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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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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

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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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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

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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

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