Cases Quote by William James

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it…

— Virgilia Peterson

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

— Alain de Botton

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

— Robert Pinsky

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.

— Greg McKeown

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere…

— Aldous Huxley

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

— Michel de Montaigne

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

— George W. S. Trow

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

— Lois Lowry

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

— Eric Butterworth

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon