Brain Quote by David Eagleman

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

— Michel Faber

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

— Pope Francis

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

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.

— Brian Chesky

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

— Julia Ward Howe

When you connect as many memories to your geography as I have, and then you see that geography change around you, you're forced to…

— Ben Gibbard

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we…

— Blaise Pascal

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

— Margaret Mead

Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps…

— Marion Milner

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

— Marc Bolan

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

— Claude Simon

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

— Seneca the Younger