Matt Groening Quotes

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.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

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

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.

I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

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.

Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

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

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.

Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

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.

Learn at every opportunity. What your learn is always yours.