Previous Quote

Mira Bartok Quotes

Next Quote
Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired? - Quote by Mira Bartok

Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?

Mira Bartok
Copy LinkCopy Link
Copy QuoteCopy Quote
Copy ImageCopy Image
Download Image of QuoteDownload Image

About The Quote

Related Authors

More Quotes From Mira Bartok

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
Mira Bartok
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.
Mira Bartok
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.
Mira Bartok
Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.
Mira Bartok
We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.
Mira Bartok
I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.
Mira Bartok
Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!
Mira Bartok
Report Quote Report Quote Report Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote