Hamilton Jordan Quotes

It's just comical how short-term people's memories are.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

The mistakes you made you tend to conveniently forget

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

My memory's pretty much gone.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

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

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.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.

I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

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.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

Continents of memory had been lost.

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.