Retention of Knowledge Quotes

What you remember saves you.

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

I often find out, once people have trained, you can never really re-train. When you get trained, you learn to lock up; you learn a wrist lock and, okay, onto the next thing, onto the next thing. You never really go back to the fundamentals.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Whenever you are in a new system, and you go on summer break and come back for training camp Day 1, you don't know how much is really going to stick.

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

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.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.