Knowledge Retention Quotes

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

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

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

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

While most of the world's information is beginning to be stored electronically, most of the world's expertise still resides in books.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

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

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Whatever you learn will never go waste. It will be beneficial for me in future.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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