Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes

No one can remember more than three points.

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

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.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

Short term memory is not good.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

My attention span was not great.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

I'm aware of everything - it's my job - I keep up to speed, and I have a blessed memory. The brain chemistry I have is such that my memory is wonderful. And sometimes it's helpful, and other times it ends up being frustrating.

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

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.