2,914 Quotes About Memory

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long.

The apparent is never the real.

If you rehearse concepts by drawing meaningful connections to real life or imaginary situations, you can effectively retain them as long term memory.

No one can soothe my inner being like you. No one can make me look to the future with such excitement like you did. No one can understand me, fulfill me, fit me like you did." ~Emma Ranstein

The experience of life should mature you. It is your choice to transform a memory into a wound or wisdom.

We write our personal story as intermittent authors; the narrator is always searching for a unitive point of view. We strive to perceive oneself from a unified perspective, but it is virtually impossible to do so. Human perception of the self is an illusion. We constantly sift through shifting memories. We experience the present under the fragrance cast by the past and under the illusionary aura of the future.

Perhaps the most basic thing that can be said about human memory, after a century of intensive research, is that unless a detail is placed into a structured pattern, it is rapidly forgotten. Detailed material is conserved in memory by the use of simplified ways of representing it.

In my personal struggle for maturity, I am gradually becoming aware of new insights, which tend as if of the themselves to want to slip away from me.