Information Retention Quotes

I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

If we should remember everything we would be as worse off as if we remembered nothing.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

I love to consume information of all kinds, and I think that also hopefully helps with my broadcasting, that I always try to bring up a fact that maybe will connect to a person who's not a big fan, or maybe a pop culture reference.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Have read little and understood less.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.