 This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes...  The Popular Educator - Σελίδα 4051855Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Locke - 1833 - 156 σελίδες
...thing, are thought to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the minil only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking...great load of collections, unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are, indeed, in some writers vi>ible instances... | |
 | 1836 - 282 σελίδες
...During the occupation of Moscow by the French, they were appropriated as stables. READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. JOHN LOCKE. THERE are times when neither the... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 σελίδες
...of every thing are thought to understand every thing too: but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is...great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instances... | |
 | 1837 - 352 σελίδες
...object. "Reading" says Locke "furnishes the mind with mate* rials of knowledge; it is thinking, that makes what we read, ours. We are of the ruminating...great load of collections, unless we chew them over again ; and then they will give us strength, and nourishment." To supply to the reader this mental... | |
 | 740 σελίδες
...materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. AVe are of the ruminating species, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. All that is found in books is not built upon... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 σελίδες
...their country, boasting not a foot of ground in all its wide domain ? READING only furnishes the mind with materials of knowledge. It is thinking makes what we read ours. MEN have more strength, women more flexibility ; men listen, arrange, compose, and deduce ; women combine,... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1843 - 352 σελίδες
...is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating...great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." A mistake here is so common and so pernicious,... | |
 | 1843 - 540 σελίδες
...furnishes tlie mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. H'c are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to...great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." A mistake here is so common and so pernicious,... | |
 | 1843 - 798 σελίδες
...always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that make» what we read ours. We are of the ruminating k.ind, and it is not enough to cram ourthe fairest prospects. No, take your course wisely, but firmly; and, having taken it, hold upon... | |
 | 1844 - 578 σελίδες
...of every thing are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind, only with materials of knowledge; it is...great load of collections, unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. The memory may be stored, but the judgment is... | |
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