Forgetting Curve Quotes

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

People are machines of forgetfulness

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one.

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

You don't just forget things overnight.

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

In some ways, the finding that financial education doesn't provide long-term payoffs is hardly surprising. After all, how much do you remember from your high school chemistry class? Unless you use chemistry at work, you probably don't recall much about ionic bonding.

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.