Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.

Context is worth 80 IQ points.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

You discover your brain is a powerful tool, something that is so powerful that sometimes you are surprised by the outcomes, how quickly it adapts to situations and how quickly you learn.

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

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.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.