Daniel Schacter quotes

“Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.”
-- Daniel Schacter

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“Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.”
-- Daniel Schacter

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“Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.”
-- Daniel Schacter

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“You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

“We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.”

“This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.”

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

“We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.”

“Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.”

“A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.”

“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”