Bits Quote by Elizabeth Loftus

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together…

— Elizabeth Loftus

We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a…

— Diane Ackerman

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

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

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what…

— Graydon Carter

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems…

— Jens Lekman

“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

“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

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

— Bill Johnson

Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.

— Richard Bandler

We don't remember everything that happens to us on a given day: sometimes, we remember something simply because it's emotional, while, at other times,…

— Maria Konnikova