It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs, are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Depend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad, in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

It's been so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up whom.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it.

Don't ever prophesy, for if you prophesy wrong nobody will forget it, and if you prophesy right nobody will remember it.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Get on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Don't forget to love yourself.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Authority forgets a dying king.

I never forget a face but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there, won't the next time.

If it's hard to remember it'll be difficult to forget.

Desire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

It is extraordinary that, when you are acquainted with a whole family, you can forget about them.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury, but if you injure him you will always remember.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Forget the past.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Forget the harm that anyone has done to you, and forget the good that you have done to others.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

But men are men, the best sometimes forget.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. 

Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty, than the person who has nothing to eat.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

What I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do I understand.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits and the names of their debtors and creditors.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Forget injuries, never forget kindness.

'I can forgive but I cannot forget' is only another way of saying 'I will not forgive'. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

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

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading, or do things worth writing.

When befriended remember it, when you befriend forget it.

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

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

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

If a smoker blows air on a white handkerchief he will find yellow spots on it. This is a sign of disease. Smoking leads to cancer. Drinking is a demonic quality. It makes you intoxicated and to forget yourself. Consuming non-vegetarian food is also a bad quality.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present and future wars.

It will be a bitter pill to her, that is like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor and then be swallowed and forgotten.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing, so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads and a deep sigh swells the breast which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

As long as I live I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.