Memory Quote by Joshua Foer

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

— Claude Simon

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

— Louise Glück

The more we live the more we forget.

— Anonymous

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.

— Claude Simon

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are…

— Maria Konnikova

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

— Craig Clevenger

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

— Daniel Pauly

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

— David Eagleman

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

— Joseph Pulitzer

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it.…

— Joshua Foer