Sarah Dessen Quotes

You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

You can never say never. I'm not sure if I even want to. I just don't know. Some of it is just not able to be reached, you can't remember some of it and the people that could help you remember have passed away. It might have to remain a remain.

You know, sometimes you have to remember the bad things so that you can learn from them.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.