We have seen that there are two misconceptions involved in the myth that memory is a thing. One is that memory is a (a tangible structure rather than an abstract process) and the other is that memory is thing (one memory rather than many memories).
A good memory is not so good as a little ink.
In the specific case of the use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in details in laboratory tasks (e.g., in word-learning tasks), the media and public are set up all too easily to interpret such research as relevant to “false memorie...
I hate a jovial table companion with a good memory.
My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime." Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment. Tengo went on, “Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The t...
I want to live my life, carrying my memories with me. Even if those memories are painful, even if those memories do nothing but hurt me, even if I wish I could forget those memories… As long as I keep carrying them with me, and don’t run away fro...
I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our cultures are built upon the foundation of shared memories that we call history and science.
You cannot build a complete memory with a single memory tool any more than you can build a complete building with a single carpentry tool.
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.
Ferrari: How odd, Borges, it seems that we are talking constantly through memory. Sometimes, our conversations remind me of a dialogue between two memories. Borges: In fact, that’s what it is. If we are something, we are our past, aren’t we? Our ...
[when trying to get out of The Dump, Joy looks at the blue Core Memory and looks at a forgotten memory] Joy: You remember how she used to stick her tongue out when she was colouring? [Joy picks another forgotten memory up and looks at it] Joy: I coul...
The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.
Memory is life's clock.
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
