 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 Conduct of the Understanding - Page 69by John Locke - 1802 - 162 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 104 pages
...Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind; and it is not enough...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS. Letters have become a profession, and, probably, of all professions... | |
 | Best books - 1872 - 368 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. The thoughts of our deliberation are most accurate ; these we vent into our papers. What... | |
 | Best books - 1872 - 264 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. The thoughts of our deliberation are most accurate ; these we vent into our papers. What... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough...and nourishment. There are, indeed, in some writers, visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these... | |
 | Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 pages
...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...again they will not give us strength and nourishment. — John Locke. 167. This is to be exactly observed, that not only exceeding great progression may... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1876 - 556 pages
...Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough...again they will not give us strength and nourishment." Turning now to the other extreme, a training in the technical use of knowledge in some trade or craft... | |
 | John Webster Hancock - Good and evil - 1876 - 282 pages
...blessedness that " Godliness with contentment is great gain." IX. THE LIMITS AND MYSTERIES OF KNOWLEDGE. " We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." — LOCKE. HATEVER may be the pride of human wisdom, or the activity of man's desire, there is a limit... | |
 | Best books - 1876 - 450 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. The thoughts of our deliberation are most accurate ; these wo vent into our papers. What... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - Clergy - 1876 - 314 pages
...materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating species,' and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. All that is found in books is not built upon true foundations, nor always rightly deduced from the... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - Best books - 1877 - 364 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. — Locke. The thoughts of our deliberation are most accurate ; . îiese we vent into our papers. What... | |
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