Biased Recall Quotes

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process and recall the facts that we are motivated to process and recall, while conveniently forgetting those that we would prefer weren't true.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

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

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

Statesmen remember things selectively.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.