Quotes About False Memory

#1. Victim-stancing - whereby the offender claims and believes that s/he is the real victim (one of the most prevalent sophistries in the false memory controversies)

Harvey L. Schwartz

#2. Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one.

Elizabeth Loftus

#3. Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

Susumu Tonegawa

#4. My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

Elizabeth Loftus

#5. Through my memory of the Passion, God can "purify" my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification.

Miroslav Volf

#6. Love should have no boundaries, no limits, and no law. Love should be free, and freely given to whomever it wants.

Cameo Renae

#7. After Abalyn said what she said, I panicked. Someone tells me I can't remember what I definitely do remember, and sometimes I panic. I'm not as used to it as I often pretend. As I pretend to be used to it, I mean to say. The false memories.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#8. Desire filters toxins through my system at the sight and I lower again, shoving her against the padded wall to snake my tongue over the elixir of pain.

Poppet

#9. Auditioning is important, and I understand that. If there is somebody making a movie, if there is somebody manufacturing a movie, they want to look at the goods. I get it. I mean, I've been in that position.

Clint Howard

#10. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#11. Your memories don't make you who you are.

Dan Krokos

#12. Peter opens his eyes and they are tearless and fierce, revealing a glimpse of his true self. Pure animalistic strength. There was never any fear for him to hide.

Dan Krokos

#13. There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Harold Pinter

#14. Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

Erwin McManus

#15. I'm sorry I don't remember."
He shrugs like it doesn't matter, but it does, and we both know it. "We'll make new memories.

Dan Krokos

#16. Stupidity is the result of a complete absence of imagination, silliness of its excess

Martin Boyd

#17. We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.

Lew Wallace

#18. His pulse races under my palms. "Was there ever ... between us, was there ever something?" I say.
He shakes his head. "Just for me. But you were always Noah's."
"I don't want to be."
He doesn't say anything.

Dan Krokos

#19. The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

Martina Mcbride

#21. There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

Rafe Esquith

#22. Memory and imagination are only a knife edge apart, and I wonder if I'm making it all up: slipping false memories in among the real ones, just to have something to hold onto. Fools gold.

Abigail Haas

#23. With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

Glenn Reynolds

#24. If I release my bird from its cage, I think I have given it freedom as I watch it fly away. But, what good to the bird is its freedom if its mind is still in the cage?

Princess Mazzaloulou

#25. Flesh does strange things to memory. Pain and joy both alter it. When you are happy, you remember things one way. When you are sad, you remember them another. And sometimes the flesh does not admit that memory is real at all or plucks false memories out of thin air.

Tanya Karen Gough

#26. I need to deny them the power to control me. I need to know I am stronger than they are.

Veronica Roth

#27. Peter smiles at me, shaking his head. Behind the smile I can see he's scared as I am. Blood drips onto his lips. "You never did listen to my orders," he said.
I smiled back. "Aren't you glad you'll have company?

Dan Krokos