Determined Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

— Thomas de Quincey

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality…

— Klaus Mann

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

— Sydney Pollack

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

— Jeff Bridges

“THE MISCONCEPTION: Memories are played back like recordings. THE TRUTH: Memories are constructed anew each time from whatever information is currently available, which makes…

— David McRaney

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

— Corrie Ten Boom

“[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 itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others,…

— George Santayana

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

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

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and…

— Daniel Schacter