Concepts Quote by Joseph Barrell

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate…

— Jerome Bruner

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

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist…

— Steve Wozniak

The 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

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

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

— James D. Watson

“This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be…

— Ralph Alfred Habas

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried…

— Aristotle

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

— Rudolf Flesch

“People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—”

— Daniel Kahneman

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau