Jesse Itzler Quotes

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

I loved the college experience of studying.

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

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

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

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

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.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

I am terrible with people's names.

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

Short term memory is not good.

My memory's bad!

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

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.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.