Families Quote by Saaif Alam

“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

“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never…

— Carl Sagan

“Now keep in mind, memories aren’t historical archives. They’re—improvisations, really. A lot of the stuff you associate with a particular event might be factually…

— Peter Watts

“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

“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

“[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

“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

“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

“You can look at a photograph, years later, of a place that is vivid in your memory, and find that it looks nothing like…

— Deborah Lawrenson

“As I was walking up the stairs to my dad's old room, and I was looking at the old photographs, I started thinking that…

— Stephen Chobosky

“The main benefit of memory for past events may be that it allows us to imagine future events.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

“If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory,…

— Erik Pevernagie