Tony Buzan Quotes

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 do think observing is important in learning.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

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

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

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

I've had my nose in a book my whole life. I never thought it would be useful, but it is now. What's really nice is that I don't have a photographic memory, so words get blurred, thoughts get mixed up, and they come out as something new.

I am a sponge. I don't write things down.

I like to read and understand.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

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.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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

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.