John Lancaster Spalding Quote

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.


p. 240 - Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)


To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to...

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to...

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to...

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to...