Definition of Recollection
Recollection
The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.
That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence.
The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
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Recollection Quotations
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Plato
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
Douglas MacArthur
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
Jean Paul
Recollection Translations
recollection in Afrikaans is herdenking, herinnering
recollection in Danish is hukommelse, erindring
recollection in Dutch is geheugen, heugenis, herinnering
recollection in German is Erinnerung
recollection in Italian is ricordo
recollection in Latin is recordatio, memoria
recollection in Swedish is erinran
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