Forgetting

What did you forget today? Here are some proverbs and quotes about forgetting.

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Butterflies forget that they were once caterpillars.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition in knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes

Did you ever stop to think and forget to start again?
Winnie the Pooh

Education is what is left after you have forgotten all you have learned.
(unknown author)

Forget the past. What else is there to forget?
Minkukel

Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.
Steve Maraboli

God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
Ogden Nash
Source: The Fly

He is a fool who praises the fruit of a tree and forgets its roots.

I can't forget, but I don't remember what.
Leonard Cohen
Source: Song: I can't forget

I didn't lose my memory. I forgot it.
Minkukel

I forgot who told me that fish is good for your memory. Probably a doctor, who sells fish.
Minkukel

I never forget a face — but I’m going to make an exception in your case!
Groucho Marx

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Quoted: Dumbledore

It'll be a memory you're trying to remember to forget.
Mick Jagger
Source: Lyrics Eazy Sleazy

Let bygones be bygones.
Forgive and forget things that happened in the past.

Many people take training to improve their memory. Wouldn't we be better off with training that helps us to forget?
Minkukel

Memory is the thing you forget with.
Alexander Chase

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.
Konrad Lorenz

My memory is not what it used to be. But I forgot what it used to be.
Minkukel

My memory is so bad: I never have to pretend that I forgot something.
Minkukel

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
J.M. Barrie
Source: Peter Pan

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
(unknown author)

Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Henry David Thoreau

Some dance to remember, some dance to forget.
Eagles
Source: Lyrics: Hotel California

Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
Things that are easy to learn can be easy to forget as well.

That's the thing about memories, you can't forget them.
Lex Luthor

The axe forgets what the tree remembers.

The axe forgets, but the log does not.

The butterfly often forgets it once was a caterpillar.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

We have all forgot more than we remember.
Thomas Fuller

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain

When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that's hunting him.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Quoted: Dumbledore




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