“Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”

“Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.”

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

“Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

“The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.”

“The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.”

“Wise? No, I simply learned to think.”

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”

“In short, to remember is to reconstruct in part on the basis of what we have learned or said since. That's normal, that's how we remember. I tell you this to encourage you to reactivate some of these profiles of excitation, instead of simply digging obsessively in an effort to find something that's already there, as shiny and new as you imagine it was when you first set it aside … Remembering is a labor, not a luxury.”

“Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”