Forgotten Quotes

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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  The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Military, Army, Navy

  Duff Gilfond, Calvin Coolidge (1932). “The Rise of Saint Calvin: Merry Sidelights on the Career of Mr. Coolidge”

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Remember

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

  Aristotle

  Time, Power, Lapses

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• Forgotten is forgiven.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Forgiven

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Giving, Aristocracy

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• It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

  Robert Menzies

  Hope, Wisdom, Truth

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• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  Harold Pinter

  Death, Cancer, Cells

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

  Iggy Pop

  Memories, Survival, Hot

  "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone interview, November 19, 2003.

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• We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Rights, Silence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Men, Forever

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Anime, Done, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Women, Clothes, Jeeves

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

  Antonia Fraser

  Heard, Marie

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• Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Forever, Once Upon A Time, Books And Reading

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• I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, World

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

  Douglas Horton

  Death, Dying, Birth

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• To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dying, Want, Recycling

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• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  Jack Abbott

  Good Morning, Psychological, Shock

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

  Henry Flynt

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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