Quotes About Recollection

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

There is no learning without remembering.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

I've been trying to remember this place," she said, almost plaintively. "I love it here, but the entire time I've felt like it was the one remembering me.

I remember you, Saul. I remember the keeper of the light.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

this whiff of tissue harbors our mental maps—and our memories. In fact, our recollections appear to be all bound up with where we experienced an event.

I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back." "Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan's Island.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

Lincoln would remember this episode with amusement.20

Sometimes I wonder if you remember things the way they really were.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

Guys like Ryan Cross have a way of reminding you who you are, even when you don't want to remember.

Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New periods of pain.

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room.

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell.