Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

If we should remember everything we would be as worse off as if we remembered nothing.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

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

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

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.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

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

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

My memory's pretty much gone.

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

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

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.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.