Memory Quote by David Thomas

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

“Memory does not reside in any one place in our brains, but rather is distributed across multiple brain regions.”

— David DiSalvo

“What is a memory, anyway? Is it an indelible record, unimpeachable, frozen in some synaptic arrangement and stored away for some moment it might…

— Jon Harrison

“Let’s agree right here at the outset that memory is made up of one part perception, one part intuition, and one part pure invention.”

— Liz Rosenberg

“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

“It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.”

— Marjorie Garber

“Memory is the irruption of other things in us.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.”

— Joseph Goldstein

“Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain…

— Napoleon Hill

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more…

— Joshua Foer

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the…

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

“The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per…

— Ben Carson