Psychology Quote by Alec Bourne

You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

— Eric Mazur

Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.

— Guy Pearce

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively…

— Calvin Coolidge

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

— Sharon Begley

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

— William James

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for…

— Stephen Jay Gould

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

— Robert Keith Leavitt

Only feeble minds are paralyzed by facts.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

— Kelly Nelson

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map,…

— Steven Pinker