Capacity Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving…

— Samuel Johnson

All learning is remembering. A good teacher causes students to remember what they already know.

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

— John Gray

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

— Julian Barnes

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act…

— Italo Calvino

“I try to shed what I’ve learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember”

— Fernando Pessoa

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

— Aldous Huxley

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

— Cormac McCarthy

We are dangerously devaluing knowledge and learning by no longer having a requirement to remember anything at all.

— David Starkey