Michael Scott Quotes

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

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

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.