 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
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1877 - 388 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 kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a.groat load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.... | |
 | sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1877 - 198 σελίδες
...enemies that, if they become friends, thou mayst not be ashamed. — GULISTAN. MAXIM. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. — LOCKE. MAXIM. Two persons undergo useless trouble, and exert themselves to no purpose. One, he... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - 1878 - 224 σελίδες
...he writes, ' are thought to understand everything too ; but it is not always so. Heading 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.' Precis- writing, though not identical with... | |
 | 1879 - 910 σελίδες
...Give as He gave thee 1 who gave thee to live." Liverpool. SAMUEL PEARSOX. HEADING furnishes the inind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes...ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we digest them they will not give us strength or nourishment. —Lode. at Sijjt. " IN the beginning, God... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 σελίδες
...passing politics and diplomacy may perish with the using. — AP Stanley. Heading furnishes the mind onlv e not that which is, but that which we hope for. — (rtH-fltr. The s So far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours ; without that it is so much... | |
 | William James Taylor - 1909 - 342 σελίδες
...slaves of borrowed opinion, that Locke speaks in his Conduct of the Understanding: Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking...not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of recollections; unless we chew them over again they will not give us; strength and nourishment. . .... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 σελίδες
...knowledge is but cobweb-learning. — J. HOWELL. Familiar Letters. CHEWING THE CUD 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 nourish ment. . . . The memory may be stored, but the judgement... | |
 | Thomas Henry Briggs, Lotus Delta Coffman - 1911 - 364 σελίδες
...Locke : "Reading furnishes the mind only with material of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what is read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is...great load of collections; unless we chew them over -wain, they will not give us strength and nourishment." And this recalls Lord Bacon's famous passage... | |
 | Byrin K. Elliott - 1911 - 668 σελίδες
...Lord Abinger, 45. "There is no rule but what may fail." Plowden's Com., 162. says: "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking...We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough that we cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1911 - 632 σελίδες
...thought, but they do not in themselves constitute true knowledge. Locke wisely says: "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking...We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough that we cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will... | |
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