Sigmund Freud Quotes

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

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

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Short term memory is not good.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.

Memory, the warder of the brain.

The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.

Daniel Levitin has more insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know. The organized Mind is smart, important, and, as always, exquisitely written.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.