Marcel Proust Quotes

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

I have a great memory.

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

As soon as anything is processed by memory, it’s fiction.

Computers have wonderful memories. Human memory is more fuzzy.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

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 and adaptations.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.