If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
Lewis Mumford

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
Aeschylus

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
Britney Spears

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
Brigham Young

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
Carl Sandburg

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster

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

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Baltasar Gracian

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Jules Renard

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Red Auerbach

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
John Milton