Quotes About Memory

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

You don't have to be dead to leave a legacy.

Even the most absent minded Soldier will develope a memory like a elephant when mistreated.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.

There is no learning without remembering.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.