Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

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

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.