W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

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.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

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

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

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.

I don't remember one thing I learned in school.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

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.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

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

Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.