Memory Quote by Siri Hustvedt

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of…

— John Locke

“[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

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

— Paula Fox

“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

“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

“Memories are changeable depending upon the passage of time and the perspective through which they are viewed.”

— Steven Redhead

“A memory is a difficult thing to judge from a distance. Did the details unfold as the child perceived them?”

— Sana Krasikov

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is…

— Walter Benjamin

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together…

— Elizabeth Loftus

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister