Quotes About Memory

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself?

Travelers we are, in this journey of memory. Aboard together we might, and get off at different times.Still, memory lingers.

I am dead to you, but you are living in me.

Your conscious mind receives information through the five senses of sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch. Your conscious mind keeps track of what you need for thinking and operating, and it filters out what you don't need. Your conscious mind (and what your memory retains) is the intelligence with which you normally think, reason, and plan.

any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. This is why you are asked to write out a statement of your major purpose, or Definite Chief Aim, commit it to memory, and repeat it, in audible words, day after day, until these vibrations of sound have reached your subconscious mind.

What I learned on my own I still remember.

I have the fondest memories of time spent in places called ugly, the most boring ones of places called scenic.

Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.

This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was—or is.

The important difference between theory and practice lies precisely in the detection of the sequence of events and retaining the sequence in memory. If life is lived forward but remembered backward, as Kierkegaard observed, then books exacerbate this effect—our own memories, learning, and instinct have sequences in them. Someone

Events that are nonrepeatable are ignored before their occurrence, and overestimated after (for a while). After

You can effortlessly look up accident statistics on the Web, but they do not easily come to mind. Note

blindness to fragility, selective memory, and absence of skin in the game.

Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event and, without realizing it, change the story at every subsequent remembrance.

Because your memory is limited and filtered, you will be inclined to remember those data that subsequently match the facts

what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.

While we have a highly unstable memory, a diary provides indelible facts recorded more or less immediately; it thus allows the fixation of an unrevised perception and enables us to later study events in their own context.

he who does not have a past has no future.6

The bias lowers our perception of the risks we incurred in the past, particularly for those of us who were lucky to have survived them. Your

Il mio mestiere è scrivere delle storie, cose inventate o cose che ricordo della mia vita ma comunque storie, cose dove non c'entra la cultura ma soltanto la memoria e la fantasia. Questo è il mio mestiere, e io lo farò fino alla morte

Pavese casi nunca hablaba de Leone. No le gustaba hablar de los ausentes ni de los muertos. Lo decía. Decía: «Cuando alguien se marcha o se muere trato de no pensar en él, porque no me gusta sufrir»

Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas.

And soon they were rolling on again, leaving Treegap behind, and as they went, the tinkling little melody of a music box drifted out behind them and was lost at last far down the road.

I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse.