Anything Quote by David Starkey

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

— Henry David Thoreau

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

— Kevin Maney

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

— Gore Vidal

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

— Gloria Steinem

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

— Claude Bernard

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not…

— Henry Hazlitt

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

The danger lies in forgetting.

— Elie Wiesel

What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as…

— Anna Brackett