Quotes about Recollection
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
— Malcolm X
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
— Mae West
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
— Samuel Johnson
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— Richard Paul Evans
By a curious coincidence, as each point was recalled, the black wizards of Ashantee would strike up with their hatchets, as in ominous comment on the white stranger's thoughts. Pressed by such enigmas and portents, it would have been almost against nature, had not, even into the least distrustful heart, some ugly misgivings obtruded.
— Herman Melville
People more often need to be reminded than informed.
— Samuel Johnson
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde
The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory
— Mark Batterson
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.
— Mark Twain
Thus although Nebuchadnezzar no longer remembered his dream, yet he could not forget the impression it made.
— Martin Luther
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
— Milan Kundera
They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.
— Luke 24:14