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.

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.

Diligent as one must be in learning one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry not culture.

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

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I've learned that people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel.

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences and the future is integration. We all as a people as citizens as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.