learning on Memory

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

The late comedian Sam Levenson enjoyed sharing funny anecdotes about his childhood, especially his early school days. One of his favorite stories was about his first day of school, when his overly pro...

“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.”

For the cramped bewildered years we went to school to learn to know the reasons why and the answers to and the people who and the places where and the days when, in memory of the bitter hours when we ...

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Such an intellectualist model of the human person-one that reduces us to mere intellect-assumes that learning (and hence discipleship) is primarily a matter of depositing ideas and beliefs into mind-c...

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

The prefrontal cortex is responsible for the success of the human species. It enables us to learn from our mistakes and make plans. When the PFC is healthy, we behave consistently in ways that enable ...

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Today is Yesterday's Pupil.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not se...

Experience is overrated. Some people say they have twenty years’ experience, when, in reality, they only have one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.

B lessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed ...

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

Any fool can learn from his mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

The bottom line is this: never grow complacent. Never grow tired of learning. As soon as we stop learning we lose the capacity to grow and mature in our work and our relationships. This continual lear...

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid aga...

Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of...

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Ancora imparo. Yet I am still learning.

Tom Watson, Sr., is the man who founded IBM. You can imagine the money, the investments, the experiments, this man, and his multi-billion dollar company have made through the years. Once, years ago, w...

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.