Quotes About Memory

The disease has survived in memory more than in any literature. Nearly all those who were adults during the pandemic have died now. Now the memory lives in the minds of those who only heard stories, who heard how their mother lost her father, how an uncle became an orphan, or heard an aunt say, "It was the only time I ever saw my father cry." Memory dies with people. The writers of the 1920s had little to say about it.

After it defeats an infection, specialized white cells (called "memory T cells") and antibodies that bind to the antigen remain in the body. If any invader carrying the same antigen attacks again, the immune system responds far more quickly than the first time. When the immune system can respond so quickly that a new infection will not even cause symptoms, people become immune to the disease.

Damasio and Bechara developed their 'Somatic Marker Hypothesis'. According to this hypothesis, each event we store in memory comes bookmarked with the bodily sensations – Damasio and Bechara call these 'somatic markers' – we felt at the time of living through it for the first time; and these help us decide what to do when we find ourselves in a similar situation.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

The young donÂ't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

Soon learnt soon forgotten.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

Of course, I have the emotional ups and downs of pregnancy, like crying jags for no reason and then the next day I can't even remember what I was crying about!

I Love the one who you are in the Past .Not the one who you are in the Present.

I am haunted by waters.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.