Forgotten Quotes
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Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.
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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.
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The passion here is really for Liza. Because of everything she has been through, people have forgotten Liza the artist.
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A lot of guys haven't forgotten. I think that's something that a lot of guys will use to motivate themselves this week.
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
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It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.
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Like the time I threw out Pete Murphy of Bauhaus for saying those six immortal words to Slim when he'd forgotten his backstage pass: 'Don't you know who I am?
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.
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A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.
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When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ...No. When they have an uncurable disease? ...No. When they drink soup made from a poisonous mushroom? No! When they are forgotten! Even if I die, my dream will come true. The hearts of the people will be cured..!
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.
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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.
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Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.
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The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.
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I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.
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I had been the dutiful son and husband for so long, I had forgotten about living for myself.
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Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
