Important Quote by William Alexander Percy

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can do multiplication.

— Michael Grant

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn…

— Andrew Lo

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

— Kevin Maney

We live what we learn, and then we forget

— Bring Me The Horizon

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.

— Michael Grant

“Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.”

— William Somerset Maugham

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

“The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table.”

— L.M. Montgomery

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not…

— Henry Hazlitt

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something…

— Andy Warhol

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you…

— Faith Salie