Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

I would say that I probably remember football stuff... but it's not like you see it once and then it's just there. I go back and watch film, watch plays, and, in my brain, I probably only have room for so much.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

I'm a sponge for information.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.