Increase Quote by Samuel Johnson

We are dangerously devaluing knowledge and learning by no longer having a requirement to remember anything at all.

— David Starkey

You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge…

— Lisa Randall

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

— William Lyon Phelps

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Memory extends as far as our self-interest.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

“So why bother investing in one’s memory in an age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one I received…

— Joshua Foer

“As we have seen, the modern mind has a distorted image of itself that leads it to neglect some of its own most valuable…

— Guy Claxton

“The objective of learning is not necessarily to remember. It may even be salutary to forget. It is only when we forget the early…

— Henning Hansmann

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we…

— Joshua Foer

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

— Ann Druyan

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated…

— Tom Chatfield