Quotes About Recollection

I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I din'd upon cod very heartily,

That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, [...] Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down into writing.

Since such a repetition is not to be expected, the next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. Hereby,

Creditors are a kind of people that have the sharpest eyes and ears, as well as the best memories of any in the world.

The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.

It's easier for me to remember things based on the releases of albums. The year is such an arbitrary thing.

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

The folding or doubling is itself a Memory: the 'absolute memory' or the memory of the outside, beyond the brief memory inscribed in strata and archives, beyond the relics remaining in the diagrams.

Everyone has their own version of a memory

no entiendo por qué necesito demostrarte mi amor recordando exactamente las mismas cosas que tú, exactamente de la misma manera que las recuerdas tú.

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.

No consigo recordar ni una sola cosa asombrosa que haya visto en persona que no me recordase de inmediato a una película o a un programa de televisión

Todo el mundo tiene su propia versión de un recuerdo

In the telling, it seemed I was back there once more.

It's funny—I've forgotten everything about my own football career, but I know the game itself. When I shoot footage of the action on the field, I get what the players

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat.

All good novelists have bad memories.

and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is 'like' we are remembering.

I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.