Definition of Recollection

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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

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.
Douglas MacArthur

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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 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

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

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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