Ben Carson Quotes

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

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.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

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!

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory

There is no time to cease learning. Only after you have closed the lid on the coffin does learning cease.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.