Quotes About Retentiveness

Steel not only had an elephant's memory, he had the ears to go along with it:

The saying is actually 'Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.