Mnemonic Quotes

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. (Peter Davison)
I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. "Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They're quite an excellent mnemonic device. View quote
Rachel Caine
It is somewhat humiliating, in this connection, to see how heavily traditional education sets about the task of making spelling enter into brains that assimilate with such ease the mnemonic contents of the game of marbles. But then, memory is dependent upon activity, and a real activity presupposes interest. View quote
Jean Piaget
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. View quote
Felix Dennis
The promise of eternal life is a threat unless you get to start over. The mythmakers knew that. They weren't dummies, man. ... They were the ones who invented rhyme and meter-the programming language for human memory in preliterary civilizations. It was a cultural checksum-a mnemonic device. You couldn't fuck with the code or the rhymes didn't work; and if the rhymes didn't work, people noticed. And so the knowledge of a people was passed down intact. It was a shamanic code. If you fucked with the code, then society lost its collective mind. Smell me? View quote
Daniel Suarez
I realized that we all need a word to anchor ourselves to the focus of Constant and Never-ending Improvement. When we create a word, we encode meaning and create a way of thinking. The words that we use consistently make up the fabric of how we think and even affect our decision making. As a result of this understanding, I created a simple mnemonic: CANI!™ (pronounced kuhn-EYE), which stands for Constant And Never-ending Improvement. View quote
Anthony Robbins