Convince Quote by Gary Wolf

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

— Gordon Bell

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

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

— William James

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

— Guy Pearce

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

— Tim O'Brien

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.

— Claudia Winkleman

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

— Benjamin Franklin

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

— Sharon Cameron

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