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“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”

Mind Has Beens Ends Would Be Action Forget Rooms Knowledge Knowing Learning Constitution Sake Fortunate Merciful Rubbish

Author:Anna Brackett

“The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.”

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

Important School Success Forget Business Education Knowledge Self Improvement Financial Academic Business Success Qualifications Financial Education

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.”

Ifs Inspirational Persons Light Earth Lasts Forget Knowledge Findings Educational Finding Yourself Never Forget Forget It Schooled Vastness Knowledge Learning Pale Blue Dot

Author:Carl Sagan

“There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.”

Source: Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart

“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”

Thinking Matter Forget Knowledge Bears Conversation Fruit Consideration

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.”

“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”

Knows Important Sometimes Science Forget Knowledge Know How Accounts Importance

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man