Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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

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.

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.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

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.

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

I don't forget nothing. It's a vault up here.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

What is not recorded is not remembered.