"To expect a man to retain everything..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
More by Arthur Schopenhauer
“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”
“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”
“Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.”
More on Learning
“The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
“We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.”