Quotes About Memory

When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

If you don't get tested throughout your career, people can forget about you.

In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.

In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy.

We should not forget what it felt like to watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify, and what it meant to so many of us.

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.

Being a new mum at whatever age is testing and I think I've forgotten what it feels like.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

Sometimes I think we only recollect what we have remembered before. What we recall is having recalled something already, so our strongest and truest memories come from a chain of often recalled things, and in that chain, over the years, events get adjusted and sorted around and stretched to fit the way we see things along the way.

You know what I really want?' Bruce said. 'Some business cards with Bruce Norris Kicked Your Arse printed on them. I can stick them in people's mouths when I knock them unconscious, just in case they don't remember me when they come round.' 'Bruce, what you need,' Kyle said, 'is some serious time with a psychiatrist.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

vanilla and turf smells of old books.

the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

T]here exists an allegiance between the dead and the unborn of which we the living are merely the ligature.

America's libraries are the fruits of a great democracy. They exist because we believe that memory and truth are important. They exists because we believe that information an knowledge are not the exclusive domain of a certain type or class of person but rather the province of all who seek to learn. A democratic society holds these institutions in high regard.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

El sentimiento de déjà vu se atribuye a menudo a un suceso de una vida pasada, pero muchas sensaciones de déjà vu son, en realidad, recuerdos de planes prenatales.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his consciousness was a second-hand one. On the other hand, he told himself, probably it was better to hear that a phantom memory had come floating up out of some lecture of his student days than to be informed that he was going out of his mind.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.