Noun
The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
That which is collected
A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
That which is obtained in payment of demands.
An accumulation of any substance.
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. Thomas Carlyle
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
Everyone should contribute when collection is made. Swahili Proverb
James Kelly (1818). A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader. Rodwell and Martin. p. 43. Chinese Proverb
The collection is for the drowned sailors. Finnish Proverb