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Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...
emanuel lasker— p. 337 (Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925))
It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.
— Barry Long, Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (Barry Long Books, 1996)
I can remember seeing the movie for the first time at a revival house in L.A. and laughing with everyone else, and never imagining that I would be doing Max one day, even though by then I had already memorized the entire movie.
nathan lane— On his role in The Producers — reported in Amy Longsdorf (December 25, 2005) "Lane, Broderick play off each other", The Record, p. E01.
The number of levels in Heaven is the number of verses in the Qur'an. Thus, when a reciter of the Qur'an enters into Heaven, it will be said to him: 'Go up one level for every verse that you can recite.' Thus, no one will be in a higher level than the one who has memorized the entire Qur'an.
— Muhammad, Biharul Anwar, Volume 92, Page 22; note that the Qur'an has 6,236 verses
The number of levels (stages) in Heaven is (equivalent to) the number of verses in the Qur’an (6236). Thus, when a reciter of the Qur’an enters into Heaven, it will be said to him: ‘Go up one level for every verse that you can recite.’ Thus, no one will be in a higher level than the one who has memorized the entire Qur’an.
— Biharul Anwar, Volume 92, Page 22 (Shi'ite Hadith)
