Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

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.

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

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

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

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

I've never kept a record of anything.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

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

I don't remember anything from college.

I'd like to think that my mentors, I've had the highest of education and one thing I've always noted, they were always writing stuff down, taking notes.

I think you never leave what you learn.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

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