Children Quote by Jennifer Senior

“We enshrine things in memory very differently from how we experience them in real time.”

— Jennifer Senior

The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist…

— Frederick Lenz

“recent research that has introduced a distinction between two selves, the experiencing self and the remembering self, which do not have the same interests.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The problem with memories is that they're not objective. One person's memory is another person's fiction. Everything is a matter of perception, defined by…

— S.G. Browne

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own…

— Salman Rushdie

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

— Alice Miller

Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.

— Frederick Lenz

The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about…

— Daniel Kahneman

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary

— Diane Keaton

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not…

— P.D. Ouspensky

Human beings remember experiences

— Matt Prior

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks