Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B. F. Skinner
There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them.
—John Boyne in Mutiny on the Bounty
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
—Henning Mankell in When the Snow Fell
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
—Laurence J. Peter
No matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there’s a trigger for every memory.
—Calia Read in Breaking the Wrong
The crime of loving is forgetting.
—Maurice Chevalier
Trying to forget really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.
—Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
—Michel de Montaigne
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
—Franklin P. Jones
You forget all of it anyway. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
—Thomas Szasz
I didn't forget you. To this day, I have yet to walk through an airport without looking for your face, and every time it snows, I remember what it felt like to kiss you.
—Sharon Sala in Second Chances
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
—Elias Canetti
Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.
—Walt Disney
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
—Jessamyn West