Our Memory Quotes

87 quotes by 78 authors

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. — Jon Wynne-Tyson
I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true… — Carl De Keyzer
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to… — Marcel Proust
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of… — Douglas Rushkoff
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they… — Neil Gaiman
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To… — Milan Kundera
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our… — Julio Cortazar
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening,… — John Pilger
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — Guy de Maupassant
Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193 — Craig Clevenger
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without… — Luis Bunuel
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad
We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory,… — Libba Bray

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