Memory Quotes - Page 18

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

Memory is dynamic, it's alive.

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

Experiences that we remember intrusively, despite desperately wanting to banish them from our minds, are closely linked to, and sometimes threaten, our perceptions of who we are and who we would like to be.

[...] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

Memoria - fie memoria individuală, fie memoria colectivă care este cultura - are o dublă funcție. Una, într-adevăr, e să conserve anumite date, cealaltă să cufunde în uitare informațiile ce nu ne folosesc și care ne-ar putea încărca inutil mințile.

The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.

My brain tends to take the scenic route. Things come to the forefront of my mind sooner or later, it just takes time.

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.

I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind.

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.