Quotes About Recollection

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

You inability to reconstruct past beliefs will inevitably cause you to underestimate the extent to which you were surprised by past events.

The remembering self is the one that answers the question: "How was it, on the whole?" Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.

Uma história é sobre eventos significativos e momentos memoráveis, não sobre a passagem do tempo. A negligência com a duração é normal em uma narrativa, e o fim muitas vezes define seu caráter. [...] É assim que o eu recordativo funciona: ele compõe histórias e as retém para futura referência.

The truth is, as Jacoby and many followers have shown, that the name David Stenbill will look familiar when you see it because you will see it more clearly. Words that you have seen before become easier to see again—you can identify them better than other words when they are shown very briefly or masked by noise, and you will be quicker (by a few hundredths of a second) to read them than to read other words. In

The experience of familiarity has a simple but powerful quality of 'pastness' that seems to indicate that it is a direct reflection of prior experience.

Amintirea e un lucru ciudat. Nu vine ?i pleac? pur ?i simplu când vrea ea, ci po?i s-o aprinzi ?i apoi s-o stingi ca pe un vreasc de foc.

He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well.

memory does not store a feature-length film of our experience but instead stores an idiosyncratic synopsis

Café ? Le bureau du divisionnaire Coudrier est un vieux souvenir qui n'a pas changé.

face she could scarcely recall, the alcoholic brother who'd never worked a day in his life—but everything

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

The trouble is that we often don't remember them correctly.

Then she moved backwards, deeper into the shadow. All I could see was that she was barely there, like something you almost recall: the Pledge of Allegiance, your daddy's real name.

But when thou shalt be in the sweet world, I pray thee bring me to men's memory.

I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.

Most people have never seen the inside of a womb—or, rather, everyone has seen it, but almost no one remembers it.

The study noted that most students preferred the description they gave three years after the event rather than the initial account they gave immediately after the event. His point in citing the study was to say that memory becomes distorted over time.

C'était une de ces scènes qui se gravent dans votre tête pour se transformer en souvenir. Au bout du compte, de quoi la vie est-elle faite sinon de souvenirs 

The amygdala doesn't use language. It learns by association, and that's how it remembers

It was her. It was Teresa.