"We live in fear of memory and of turning inward" because
there "are spirits all around us, every moment of our life wants to
say something to us" Nietzsche
A retentive memory may be good thing,
but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. Elbert
Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
At hukommelse sættes ud af kraft kendetegner al handling.
Nietzsche(Historiens nytte, "Forgetfulness is the property of all
action")
Cheerfulness, the good conscience, the joyful deed, confidence
in the future - all of them depend, in the case of an individual as of
a nation, on the existence of a line dividing the bright and
discernible from the unilluminable and dark; on one's being just as
able to forget at the right time as to remember at the right time.
Nietzsche
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been
forgotten. Professor B. F. Skinner 1904 - 1990
In the smallest and the greatest happiness, there is always one
things that makes it happiness: the power of forgetting. Nietzsche
It is our noticing them that puts things in a room, our
growing used to them that takes them away again and clears a space for
us. Marcel Proust 1871 - 1922
Not to know certain thing is a great part of wisdom. Hugo Grotius
1583 - 1645
You know more than you think you do. Dr. Benjamin Spock 1903 -
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
Women and elephants never forget an injury. Saki (H.H.Munro),
Reginald, 1904
Quite literally, a man's memory is what he forgets with. (Memory
is what makes you wonder what you've forgotten.) Odell
Shepard
Many a man fails to become a thinker simply because his memory
is too good. Nietzsche
Tåber og kloge folk er lige uskadelige. Kun halvtåberne og de
halvkloge, de er de farligste. Goethe
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
Forgetfulness is a property of all action. Nietzsche
best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get
interested in someone else's. Goodman Ace
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the
unconscious. Nietzsche
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Austin O'Malley
All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes
think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I
know nothing. John Cage
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