Cognitive Retention Quotes

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

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.

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

You have a... remarkable memory." "I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there's an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

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.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

What I learned on my own I still remember

Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.