2,914 Quotes About Memory
- Author Milan Kundera
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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of our identity that throws a whirl of light on the secreted framework of our life. ("Labyrinth of the mind")
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- Author Elizabeth Wein
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The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
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- Author Nicholas Carr
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Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this:Hot: ColdOthers used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this:Hot: CThe people who used the cards with the missing letters performed much better in a subsequent test measuring how well they remembered the word pairs. Simply forcing their minds to fill in a blank, to act rather than observe, led to stronger retention of information.
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- Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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Past is nothing but the crumbs of a dream remained in our memory! And the future is just another short dream which is likely to happen!
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- Author Nishikant
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All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory,Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory,Because you don’t know what is there in the future,And all you need is a vision to make a perfect picture.I feel that I have known you for a century,And whatever she calls is a memory.
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- Author Jennifer Vonk
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Once we learn words, it is seemingly impossible to think without them. In fact, this is the prevailing explanation for infantile amnesia: our preverbal memories cannot be retrieved because they are stored in a different nonverbal code that is difficult to convert (Simcock & Hayne, 2003).
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- Author Dean Burnett
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Sadly, the words "reliable" and "accurate" can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory.
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- Author John Steinbeck
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It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.""And memory.""Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.
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