“We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.” — Plato Copy Share Image
During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that,… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it.… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as… — Michael Lesy Copy Share Image
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
