Individual Quote by Taylor Caldwell

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

— David Mitchell

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

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

— Igor Stravinsky

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and…

— Daniel Schacter

“[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

“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

— Martha Ronk

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

— Frank Herbert

Oh yes as a matter of fact it's quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of…

— Rupert Sheldrake

My past identity separates from me and remains in the past; he becomes someone else. Is memory really as insubstantial as the fragments of…

— Hideo Kojima

“Han reminds me of Carl Jung’s concept of racial memory—the idea that the collective experiences of a race are hereditary. Thus, the memories of…

— Euny Hong