Live by Quote by Igor Stravinsky

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

— Igor Stravinsky

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

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it…

— Salman Rushdie

Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are…

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— David Halberstam

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

“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

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things…

— Thomas Merton

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

— D. H. Lawrence

That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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