Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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.

I'm a mum so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans I count that as a fashion success.

I worshipped dead men for their strength forgetting I was strong.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests I forget to worry.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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.

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.

Diligent as one must be in learning one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry not culture.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

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.

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.

When I go on the plane to fly home I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home home.

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

When I'm writing my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting even in death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy etc. and the less we think about it the better.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting at the proper moment what we know.

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.