Brain Quote by Siri Hustvedt

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

— Italo Calvino

“[M]any people believe that memory works like a recording device. You just record the information, then you call it up and play it back…

— Elizabeth Loftus

“Scientists say that when we recall something from our past, it isn’t as simple as taking out a photograph from an album. Because it…

— Barbara Nickless

Memory is what makes us young or old.

— Anonymous

When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These…

— Susannah Cahalan

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what…

— Graydon Carter

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more…

— Joshua Foer

Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there.

— Richard Bandler

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes…

— Pete Docter