Mental Recollection Quotes

And never forget, there is memory.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures