Retention of Information Quotes

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

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.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

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

Remember what I've told you. Remember me.

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

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

People always remember the second half.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.