Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.
Interpretation
Our memories tend to focus on positive or convenient experiences while overlooking the negative ones.
Malcolm Forbes highlights the inherent selectivity of human memory, suggesting that we often choose to remember events in a way that favors our emotions or perspectives. This selective recollection can provide comfort and a sense of fortune but can also distort reality, leading us to overlook important lessons from negative experiences.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the reliability of memory in a psychology class.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?
It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. Now, if Iβm wrong, put me in jail; but if you canβt prove that democracy is not hypocrisy, then donβt put your hands on me.
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
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