Funny Quote by Ambrose Bierce Download Open image “recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.” — Ambrose Bierce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Known Love Recalls Success
I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
“If you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but at this… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over a span… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together… — Elizabeth Loftus Copy Share Image
Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Retrieval practice—recalling facts or concepts or events from memory—is a more effective learning strategy than review by rereading. Flashcards are a simple example. Retrieval strengthens the memory and interrupts forgetting. A single, simple quiz after reading a text or hearing a lecture produces better learning and remembering than rereading the text or reviewing lecture notes.” — Peter C. Brown Copy Share
“What we now know is that our brains happily reconstruct memories, though we are frequently fooled into thinking that the reconstructions are seamlessly recorded… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and, at that same point, it is susceptible to new changes… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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