Fiction Quote by Joyce Carol Oats

“My experience is that I can think while strolling but cannot engage in mental work that imposes a heavy load on short-term memory.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“As my father explained after we’d finished, the point of the exercise was to recognize that there really is no difference between the mind…

— Yongey Mingyur

“But my mind is like a thin line; it travels badly. I go from thought to thought but not with logic, and I forget…

— William Goldman

“Memory is a class of thoughts which takes as its object something already experienced.”

— Joseph Goldstein

“When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay," and part of it accepts this. In the…

— Anna Smaill

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others…

— S.J. Watson

“A perfect memory is the enemy of thought.”

— Esther Murphy Arthur

“The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one…

— Dada Bhagwan

“You cannot eliminate a thought by fighting it or trying to block it out. Resisting an unwanted thought only entangles you and drives that…

— Tommy Newberry

“I don't want to be a memory, I want to be a thought”

— Josue Rivera

Memory is the residue of thought

— Daniel T. Willingham

“Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can’t hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then…

— Julie Farrell