Quotes About Memory

You only begin to grasp the import of an event – and its larger implications vis-à-vis your life – long after it has entered into that realm marked 'memory'.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Only Europeans and their descendants remember guilt. So only Europeans and their descendants have continuously to atone for it.

Internet nos ayuda a recordar, pero también nos lleva a abordar el pasado desde una extraña omnisciencia. Esto convierte al pasado -como todo lo demás- en rehén de cualquier arqueólogo con sed de venganza.

Very few experts actually measure their performance over time, and they tend to summarize their memories with anecdotes. They are right sometimes and wrong sometimes, but the anecdotes they remember tend to be more flattering to them.

When presented new information, we have no other option than to relate it to what we already know—there is no blank space in our minds within which new information can be stored so as not to "contaminate" it with existing information. —Clifford Konold, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University of Massachusetts

Most of what is shaping you in the course of your reading you will not be able to remember. The most formative years of my life were the first five, and if those years were to be evaluated on the basis of my ability to pass a test on them, the conclusion would be that nothing important happened then, which would be false. The fact that you can't remember things doesn't mean that you haven't been shaped by them.

The brain is not a shoebox that "gets full," but is rather a muscle that expands its capacity with increased use. The more you know, the more you can know.

he hardly knew any facts and was thus having trouble sticking to them.

The fact that you can't remember things doesn't mean that you haven't been shaped by them.

Memory is ours as long as we live. Every person is like a snowflake. Every person, like every snowflake is unique. Both people and snowflakes have intricate patterns which have never been replicated and never will. Yet both people and snowflakes melt away before our eyes. Each is frail. Each is, in its own way, something beautiful. Each is so very delicate and vulnerable. Each is precious beyond words.

They cannot make history who forget history.

On the Threshold is beautiful and very touching and a moving tribute to my friend, colleague and mentor Irvin Yalom.

Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)

The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul.

All of my stories are true, and some of them actually happened.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I wont remember?

We mustve been here before, its still fresh on my mind. You got that shit that somebody would look for but wont find. You mustve done this before, this cant be your first time.

And we were making a film I truly believed in, and the message of the film is "How do you make love stay?" Because it doesn't matter if someone has a memory or not, you have to reinvent love every day.

Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.

Any married man should forget his mistakes — no use two people remembering the same thing.

Thinking of his forebears, it seemed the actual moment of death was not important to record: you died when those who lived forgot your existence.

Ces larmes jaillissaient de la rencontre entre le meilleur de l'homme et le souvenir des horreurs qui avaient failli conduire l'humanité à sa ruine.