Quotes About Memory

In any event, Socrates' proof of prenatal immortality is that one of Meno's uneducated slave boys actually comes up with the Pythagorean theorem without ever having studied geometry! Therefore, he must be remembering it. You recall that theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Huh? We can barely remember that from tenth grade, let alone from before we were born.

Rarely do things perish from my memory that are worth remembering. Rubbish dies instantly. Hence it happens that passages in Latin or English poets, which I never could have read but once (and that thirty years ago), often begin to blossom anew when I am lying awake, unable to sleep.

it is sufficient to say, that a chorus of work, the whole of my past life - but, as if recalled by an act of memory, but as if present and incarnated in the music: no longer painful to dwell upon: but the detail of it's incidents removed, or blended in some hazy abstraction; and its passions exalted, spiritualized, and sublimed. All this was to be had for five shillings.

All glories of flesh vanish, and this, the glory of infantine beauty seen in the mirror of memory, soonest of all.

Memory is a mental stabilizer and without it the mind becomes chaotic and unstructured, allowing 1999 and 1940 to merge.

Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown.

I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.

I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.

In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.

I'll never forget Rome and what I experienced there.