Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
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.
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.
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.
I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Memory is the thing you forget with.