There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
Memory narrativises itself.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.