--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: Memory was a tricky thing, but reality…" description: "\"“Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that the truth could b..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sara-shepard-1948_memory_memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-wa_3083076.png" --- # Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier… ![“Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that the truth could be something else” quote by Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sara-shepard-1948_memory_memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-wa_3083076.png) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sara-shepard-1948_memory_memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-wa_3083076.png) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sara-shepard-1948_memory_memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-wa_3083076.png) > ““Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that the truth could be something else”” [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Our perceptions shape reality, and once we commit to a belief, it becomes hard to accept contradictory truths. **In simple terms:** Beliefs lock us into a single view of truth. Key Takeaway Stay open to new evidence. Themes perception reality belief cognitive bias Mood reflective thoughtful Type philosophical inspirational When to use this quote - personal relationships - legal investigations - personal growth - conflict resolution Key Concepts subjectivity confirmation bias truth flexibility Questions to Reflect On - How do you test your assumptions? - What evidence would change your mind? A Different Perspective Hard‑won truths may be uncomfortable to confront. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Memory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/memory/) [Psychology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/psychology/) [Truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/truth/) ## Related quotes > [“Losing a chunk of your memory is a tricky thing, a deep-sea quake triggering shifts and upheavals too far distant from the epicenter to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/losing-a-chunk-of-your-memory-is-a-tricky-thing-a-deep-sea-quake/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [“Most people have no reason to know how memory can turn rogue and feral, becoming a force of its own and one to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tana-french/most-people-have-no-reason-to-know-how-memory-can-turn-rogue-and/) [Tana French](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tana-french/) > [Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/tell-the-truth-and-you-won-t-have-so-much-to-remember/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) > [My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-teixeira/my-greatest-memories-as-a-kid-were-playing-sports-with-my-dad-and/) [Mark Teixeira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-teixeira/) > [That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-brinsley-sheridan/that-old-man-dies-prematurely-whose-memory-records-no-benefits/) [Richard Brinsley Sheridan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-brinsley-sheridan/) > [My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mo-farah/my-first-olympics-memory-was-watching-haile-gebrselassie-in-sydney/) [Mo Farah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mo-farah/) > [Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/your-memory-is-a-monster-you-forget-it-doesn-t-it-simply-files-things/) [John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/) > [I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herb-caen/i-have-a-memory-like-an-elephant-i-remember-every-elephant-i-ve-ever/) [Herb Caen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herb-caen/) > [“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/the-whole-town-rushed-outside-to-celebrate-this-crowded-minute-when/) [Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/) > [I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phoebe-stone/i-am-told-many-children-block-out-the-memory-of-trauma-in-fact-the/) [Phoebe Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phoebe-stone/) > [Once upon a time. Ah forget it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/once-upon-a-time-ah-forget-it/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tobias-wolff/memory-is-funny-once-you-hit-a-vein-the-problem-is-not-how-to/) [Tobias Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tobias-wolff/) > [In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/in-literature-and-art-memory-is-a-synonym-for-invention-it-is-the/) [Robert Aris Willmott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-aris-willmott/) > [“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-ellison/maybe-there-is-something-when-it-all-ends-maybe-there-is-memory/) [Kate Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-ellison/) > [I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-phoenix/i-was-3-years-old-to-this-day-it-is-a-vivid-memory-my-family-and-i/) [Joaquin Phoenix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-phoenix/) ## More by Sara Shepard > [I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/i-am-a-big-outliner-for-my-adult-book-the-visibles-i-did-not-outline/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [“Girls fight much dirtier than boys”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/girls-fight-much-dirtier-than-boys/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [“all of us are damaged in our own ways. It's just that most people call it 'experience'. And you've had a lot of experience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/all-of-us-are-damaged-in-our-own-ways-it-s-just-that-most-people-call/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/it-s-amazing-what-you-don-t-see-though-even-when-it-s-right-in-front/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/sutton-s-dead-tell-no-one-keep-playing-along-or-you-re-next/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/its-more-fun-to-think-of-the-future-than-dwell-on-the-past/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [“Pull yourself together, bitch. He's just a guy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/pull-yourself-together-bitch-he-s-just-a-guy/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/i-understood-we-used-to-be-close-but-they-were-like-books-i-d-read/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [Everybody has a secret and everybody has problems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/everybody-has-a-secret-and-everybody-has-problems/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [“You Know What They Say About Hope. It Breeds Eternal Misery. -Spencer Hastings”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/you-know-what-they-say-about-hope-it-breeds-eternal-misery-spencer/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [Every pretty girl is a heartbreaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/every-pretty-girl-is-a-heartbreaker/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [“I know what I know,” she said softly. “But I let go of the fury I had for that boy a long time ago.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/i-know-what-i-know-she-said-softly-but-i-let-go-of-the-fury-i-had-for/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [“I will never forget that moments, or the moments that came after”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/i-will-never-forget-that-moments-or-the-moments-that-came-after/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [“Get ready to meet your maker. It won’t be long now. Kisses! A (the real one)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/get-ready-to-meet-your-maker-it-won-t-be-long-now-kisses-a-the-real/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) > [It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/it-s-not-fun-to-keep-secrets-but-sometimes-you-have-to-do-it-to/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) [Explore all 193 Sara Shepard quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) ## More Memory quotes > [I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-phoenix/i-was-3-years-old-to-this-day-it-is-a-vivid-memory-my-family-and-i/) [Joaquin Phoenix](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-phoenix/) > [“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-ellison/maybe-there-is-something-when-it-all-ends-maybe-there-is-memory/) [Kate Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-ellison/) > [In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/in-literature-and-art-memory-is-a-synonym-for-invention-it-is-the/) [Robert Aris Willmott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-aris-willmott/) > [Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tobias-wolff/memory-is-funny-once-you-hit-a-vein-the-problem-is-not-how-to/) [Tobias Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tobias-wolff/) > [Once upon a time. Ah forget it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/once-upon-a-time-ah-forget-it/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phoebe-stone/i-am-told-many-children-block-out-the-memory-of-trauma-in-fact-the/) [Phoebe Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phoebe-stone/) > [“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/the-whole-town-rushed-outside-to-celebrate-this-crowded-minute-when/) [Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/) > [I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herb-caen/i-have-a-memory-like-an-elephant-i-remember-every-elephant-i-ve-ever/) [Herb Caen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herb-caen/) > [Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/your-memory-is-a-monster-you-forget-it-doesn-t-it-simply-files-things/) [John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/) > [My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mo-farah/my-first-olympics-memory-was-watching-haile-gebrselassie-in-sydney/) [Mo Farah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mo-farah/) > [That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-brinsley-sheridan/that-old-man-dies-prematurely-whose-memory-records-no-benefits/) [Richard Brinsley Sheridan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-brinsley-sheridan/) > [My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-teixeira/my-greatest-memories-as-a-kid-were-playing-sports-with-my-dad-and/) [Mark Teixeira](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-teixeira/) > [What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elaine-dundy/what-s-the-use-of-remembering-anything-if-it-was-unpleasant-it-was/) [Elaine Dundy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elaine-dundy/) > [Always remember a little thing can change everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/always-remember-a-little-thing-can-change-everything/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [If God knows me I will never forget him](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/trunxbeats/if-god-knows-me-i-will-never-forget-him/) Trunxbeats [Browse all 12,248 Memory quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/memory/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that the truth could be something else”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sara Shepard" }, "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-was-even-trickier-once-you-made/", "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Memory" }, "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-was-even-trickier-once-you-made/#quotation", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sara-shepard-1948_memory_memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-wa_3083076.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sara-shepard-1948_memory_memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-wa_3083076.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/sara-shepard-1948_memory_memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-wa_3083076.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was…” — Sara Shepard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Sara Shepard", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "“Memory was a tricky thing, but...", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-was-even-trickier-once-you-made/" } ], "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/memory-was-a-tricky-thing-but-reality-was-even-trickier-once-you-made/#breadcrumb" }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```