forgetting

[forgetting]

When you forget something, you can't recall or remember it. An actor who forgets his lines might need some helpful cues from the other actors on stage.

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p. pr. & vb. n.
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Usage Examples

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

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Other Usage Examples

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

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.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

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.'

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