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

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.
Johannes Tauler

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Bernard Meltzer

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

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.
Albert J. Nock

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Albert J. Nock

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.'
Immanuel Kant

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz

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.
Diane Sawyer

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

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
Pierre Schaeffer

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
Judith Guest

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
Juliette Binoche

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
Vita Sackville-West

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint Laurent

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.
Albert J. Nock

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