Learning Quote by E. D. Hirsch, Jr

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— Anonymous

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Because sometimes the memory of what one has read tempers the actual experience, and the experience itself becomes, more than something physical, the realization…

— Sergio Chejfec

“Preestablished schemata guide our attention to evaluate new information, but they can also guide our attention to selectively ignore information inconsistent with the schemata.”

— David DiSalvo

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

— John Locke

“We know that reading changes the way we think. Among other things, it helps us formulate thoughts that are more abstract, categorical, and logical.”

— The Penguin Press

“Some things need no study, no learning, no repetition in pursuit of memory. They burn themselves into the eye and can be examined ever…

— William Golding

Memory is the library of the mind

— Francis Fauvel-Gourand

The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on…

— Laozi

“the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense–-”

— Vladimir Nabokov

To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the…

— Anne Waldman

You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the…

— Thomas Huxley