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“You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.”

Should Mind Long Order Names Memories Results Numbers Alive Produce Thousand Method Isolated Incidents Our Memories

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical art, but [...] they also store the mind with independent geometrical and physical knowledge. Besides, it should be considered, that the only effectual method of impressing abstract formulae and rules upon the memory, and, indeed, of making them fully and clearly apprehended by the understanding, is by examples of their practical application.”

Should Mind Art Understanding Memories Practice Effects Example Independent Method Stores Practicals Abstract Application Impress Confined Illustration

Author:Dionysius Lardner

“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”

Source: The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

“...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.”

Memories Shadow Method Inevitable Imperfection Distortion Pickles

Book:Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

“A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.”

Individual Memories Attention Practice Modern Judgment Training Increase Intelligent Method Philosopher Manage Fixed Protest Pessimism Quantity Brutal Our Memories

Author:Alfred Binet