Recollection Quotes

• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Wisdom, Future

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Philosophical, Diaries

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.34, Prestwick House Inc

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• Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

  Madeleine Delbrel

  God, Faith, Running

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• On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

  William Bartram

  Inspirational, Thank You, Gratitude

  William Bartram (1955). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Love, Memories, Thinking

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

  Joe McNally

  People, Way, Reminiscing

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• Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

  Jean Paul

  Memories, Writing, Paradise

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• A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memories, Greatness, May

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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

  Plato

  Philosophical, Process

  Plato, Benjamin Jowett (2009). “Five Great Dialogues of Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.70, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

  Josephine Hart

  Memories, Pure

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

  Alexander Smith

  Memories, Real, Men

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58, tredition

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• No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

  Samuel Johnson

  Optimism, Mind, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.476

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• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  Salvador Dali

  Love, Memories, Real

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Heart, Youth, Young

  Arsène Houssaye (1852). “Philosophers and Actresses”, p.89

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• Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Names, Passing Away

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

  John Philip Sousa

  Real, Childhood, Desire

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• A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Heart, Years, Effort

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Blessing, Growth

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three books of Offices: or, Moral duties. Also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Laelius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.249

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• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Memories, Men

  Andre Maurois, S. C. Roberts (2014). “Aspects of Biography”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

  Peter L. Berger

  Past, History, Flexible

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• It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant."
  [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Greek, Males

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• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

  Cesare Pavese

  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  Hamlin Garland

  Love, Peace, Nature

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• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Amazement

  "Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956" by Jack Kerouac, 1995.

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• My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

  Clifton Fadiman

  Order

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