Change Quote by Claude Simon

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

— Claude Simon

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

— Daniel Pauly

The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we…

— Joshua Foer

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

— Joan Didion

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

— E. O. Wilson

“Memory deforms reality, which nevertheless is formed as reality only in memory”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp

— Ai Weiwei

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

— Louise Glück

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that…

— Herbert Marcuse

“With the industrial proliferation of visual and audiovisual prostheses and unrestrained use of instantaneous-transmission equipment from earliest childhood onwards, we now routinely see the…

— Paul Virilio