Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.

by Tony Buzan, inventor of Mind Mapping

Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context.Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?

by Kenneth C. Davis

Never memorize something that you can look up.

by Albert Einstein

Memorizing someone else's explanation of the truth isn't the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is—the memorization of second - hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material is learned by rote, and no matter how eloquently we can speak about the memorized information, we're clinging to a description of something that's not ours. What's more, the description is never the item itself. By holding onto our impression of certain descriptions, we frequently are unable to see the real thing when it's right before our eyes. We are conditioned by memorizing and believing concepts—the truth of which we've never genuinely seen for ourselves.

by H.E. Davey

The old linear pattern of thinking by reading and describing from left to right, top to bottom has many problems in organizing information coming from eyes, ears, etc. For example, the ability to read and understand the context of a book is different from memorizing them simply as sentences.

by Tony Buzan, inventor of Mind Mapping