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.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

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.

When I go on the plane to fly home I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home home.

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

When I'm writing my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

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

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting even in death.