Forgetfulness Quote by Samuel Johnson

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance…

— Galileo Galilei

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

— Sigmund Freud

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of…

— John Locke

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a…

— William James

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

— Samuel Johnson

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

— Bayazid Bastami

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

— Erich Maria Remarque