Quotes About Memory

Rereading text and massed practice of a skill or new knowledge are by far the preferred study strategies of learners of all stripes, but they're also among the least productive.

How ably you can explain a text is an excellent cue for judging comprehension, because you must recall the salient points from memory, put them into your own words, and explain why they are significant—how they relate to the larger subject.

It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness.

Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not be the work instead of hidden channels of memory leading back to the notions of others absorbed, coming now anew into form he'd almost known within him was growing. He called it (the ghost of a) cryptomnesia. So we own and owe what we know.

One can't ever be sure what is more valuable: what has gone away, or what remains.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.

That was the trouble with history, Oscar thought: Once the distance had grown long enough, any event could be seen favorably. The true horror faded with time, and ignorance replaced it.

elaborated the notion of procedural memories based on the nonconscious implicit use of past experience

affects ought to be studied in their own right, and that they constitute an independent sphere of knowledge—distinct from perception, cognition, and memory. According to Tomkins, affects are primary biological motivating mechanisms and can, thus, be understood as having primacy in human agency.

Cambridge, through a long series of studies, have shown that birds can store food of different kinds in hundreds of distinct places to retrieve later, and can remember not only where they have put food but what was put in each place, so the more perishable items can be retrieved before the longer-lasting ones.

For my children. For you. So that you could be safe. So that what happened to them," he nods toward the photo of his mother and his sister, "would never happen to you. Because it will never really go away, this thing. It goes underground for a generation or two, but always reemerges.

It was the love. The name was a code, a cipher for the love you carried with you until you yourself were gone and your remembering was done.

Even the stars we see are only a kind of memory, already dead for years.

No recordarán la historia, ni actuarán en consecuencia, a menos que su solución final los deje hipnotizados.

When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like.

If you remember," he said, "and have a past, then you can be given the blame and be punished. See – if you don't remember anything, you don't have time like other people. It's a bit like being crazy, so you get taken into protective custody. Then there's a chance. " —

Sorrow beyond dreams.

How can you kill a man who'd already been dead for years?

I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.

I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations. I made a Bear and a Goat but maybe not where they are supposed to be, I made some for the animals that once were, the ones I know about.