This from Hugh of St Victor was from one of the essays:
Child, knowledge is a treasury and your heart its strongbox. As you study all of knowledge store up for yourself good treasures, immortal treasures, incorruptible treasures, which never decay or lose the beauty of their brightness. In the treasure house of knowledge there are various sorts of wealth, and many filing places in the storehouse of your heart. in one place is put gold, in another silver, in another precious jewels. Their orderly arrangement is clarity of knowledge. Dispose and separate each single thing into its own place so you may know what has been placed here and what there. Confusion is the mother of ignorance and forgetfulness, but orderly arrangement illuminates the intelligence and secures memory.
I have nothing to add the quotation is complete in itself.
Publication Date
2003, University of Pennsylvania Press
Link to last Book
The Memory Chalet was the application of medieval memory techniques
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