Quotes About Recollection

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that changes and then disappears. It drops like a stone to the bottom of the cave.

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

I read it somewhere once." She laughed. "You did not." "I did. Okay, I wrote it down first. Then I read it. But still.

long-ago lifetime.

Memory, the whole lying opera of it.

Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have shown that what we remember about the pleasurable quality of our past experiences is almost entirely determined by two things: how the experiences felt when they were at their peak (best or worst), and how they felt when they ended.

Are we aware of our mind's distortions of our past experiences? In most cases, the answer is no. As time goes by and the memories gradually change, we become convinced that we saw or said or did what we remember.

The stories we hear in childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

La importancia de las creencias radica en que la mayoría de tus recuerdos fueron fabricados por tu mente para ajustarse a lo que piensas que sucedió.

The Greeks called that sudden understanding anamnesis. Literally, "the forgetting of the forgetting.

Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.1 No matter how small the percentage of violent deaths may be, in absolute numbers there will always be enough of them to fill the evening news, so people's impressions of violence will be disconnected from the actual proportions.

The human mind tends to estimate the probability of an event from the ease with which it can recall examples, and scenes of carnage are more likely to be beamed into our homes and burned into our memories than footage of people dying of old age.

As the columnist Franklin Pierce Adams pointed out, "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

I seem to recall having had edgier taste in music, but I suppose that's just one more adjustment I'll have to make to my compromised memories.

If you remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing happening again. That's the purpose of memory. It's not "to remember the past." It's to stop the same damn thing from happening over and over.

Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past's guide to the future.

La memoria no es una descripción del pasado objetivo, sino una herramienta. La memoria es la guía del pasado para el futuro.