Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

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

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

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

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...