“It's not just that we remember things wrongly, but we don't even know we're remembering them wrongly”

— Daniel Levitin, book The Organized Mind

The Organized Mind (2014)
Context: It's not just that we remember things wrongly, but we don't even know we're remembering them wrongly, doggedly insisting that the inaccuracies are in fact true.

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