Nancy Willard Quotes

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

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.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

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

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

Comprehension follows perception.

I like to read and understand.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

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

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

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.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

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

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.