Plato Quotes

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

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

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

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

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.

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

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.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

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

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

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

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.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.