„When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are. It's life.“
— Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955
Quotes about forgetting
A collection of quotes on the topic of forgetting.
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„Do not feel ashamed to forgive and forget.“
— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 53: An order to Malik Al-Ashtar
„I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.“
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5
„You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.“
— Charlie Parker American jazz saxophonist and composer 1920 - 1955
As quoted in Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business (2006) by Jason Pugatch, p. 73; this statement has occurred with many different phrasings, including: "Learn the changes, then forget them."
„When you start the next project you have to forget everything you did before, otherwise Dark Knight will start to sound like Kung Fu Panda.“
— Hans Zimmer German film composer and music producer 1957
Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13964918.
„A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.“
— Peter Handke Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942
Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 7
„Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.“
— Irena Sendler Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910 - 2008
Letter to the Polish Senate (2007), quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" http://www.auschwitz.dk/Sendler.htm by Louis Bülow (2007)
„To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
Misattributed, Quoted in a Edith A. Sawyer (1899), Mary Cameron
„I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.“
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
„Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.“
— Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946
„We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.“
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
„Canada declares national #ClimateEmergency. It’s great that more countries and regions are doing this. But remember:The fossil fuels must stay in the ground. Forget “climate neutral” and clever accounting. Our emissions must start their way to zero. Now.“
— Greta Thunberg Swedish climate change activist 2003
2019, Twitter post https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1140904436094644224 (18 June 2019)
„Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.“
— Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988
The Value of Science (1955), Context: The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty — some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain. Now, we scientists are used to this, and we take it for granted that it is perfectly consistent to be unsure, that it is possible to live and not know. But I don’t know whether everyone realizes this is true. Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
„Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.“
— Zhuangzi classic Chinese philosopher -369 - -286 BC
Context: A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find someone who's forgotten words so I can have a word with him?...
Variant: "Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to."
„Some say cavalry and others claim
infantry or a fleet of long oars
is the supreme sight on the black earth.
I say it is
the one you love. And easily proved.
Didn't Helen, who far surpassed all
mortals in beauty, desert the best
of men, her king,
and sail off to Troy and forget
her daughter and her dear parents? Merely
Aphrodite's gaze made her readily bend
and led her far
from her path. These tales remind me now
of Anaktoria who isn't here,
yet I
for one
would rather see her warm supple step
and the sparkle in her face than watch all
the chariots in Lydia and foot soldiers armored
in glittering bronze.“
— Sappho ancient Greek lyric poet -630 - -570 BC
The Willis Barnstone translations, Supreme Sight on the Black Earth, Fragment 16 Voigt
„Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!“
— John Irving, book A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
„Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day“
— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981
