Cases Quote by Daniel Kahneman

“We view memories as archives of past events—of what has actually happened. But in reality, memories are nothing more than descriptions of what we…

— Mo Gawdat

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

— Willa Cather

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories…

— Elizabeth Loftus

Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they…

— Azar Nafisi

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with…

— John Slattery

Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't…

— Tobias Wolff

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories,

— Elizabeth Loftus

Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence…

— Rajneesh

Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

— Philip Roth

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

— David Halberstam

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past…

— Milan Kundera

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present

— Cassandra Clare