quotation vs selection

quotation and selection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quotation	Yes	No	No	No
selection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, selection is a hypernym of quotation; that is, selection is a word with a broader meaning than quotation:

Other hypernyms of quotation include excerpt, excerption, extract.

quotation (noun)	selection (noun)
the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.	the act of choosing or selecting
a passage or expression that is quoted or cited	the person or thing chosen or selected
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage	a passage selected from a larger work
a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity	an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
	a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment