Collectives Quote by Haruki Murakami

“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group. Collective memory,…

— Wendy Griswold

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory.…

— Haruki Murakami

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

— Ralph Davis

“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids,…

— Wendy Griswold

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

— David Miliband

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

Maybe it is not just social history - the belt buckles and soup ladles - that connects us to the past, but a grander…

— Bettany Hughes

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they…

— Israel Rosenfield