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

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

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

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

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.
John McCarthy

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
Evelyn Underhill

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

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
Christina Hoff Sommers

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
Chris Lowe

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