Forgetting Quotes

We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal, forgetting that which is temporary.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.