Quotes About Memory

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

[History is] petrified imagination.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.