Compelling Quote by Klaus Mann

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“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

“Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves…

— Jim Stovall

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

— Jeff Bridges

“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

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

— Willa Cather

“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

“[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

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 not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

“Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't…

— Jamie Kain

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates