Idries Shah Quotes

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

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

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

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

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

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

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

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.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

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

Short term memory is not good.

My memory's bad!

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