 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 - Page 4051855Full view - About this book
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 178 pages
...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 thinking makes what we read eurs. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...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 thinking...read ours. We are of the ruminating- kind, and it js not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...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 thinking makes what we read ours. We arc of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections... | |
 | 1820 - 390 pages
...THE POCKET MAGAZINE. ESSAY BASIL. ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN READING AND STUDY. " Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is -thinking makes what we read ours." Locke. AS the great philosopher above quoted intimates, we should discriminate between readmg, and... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1823 - 202 pages
...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 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 visible... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 404 pages
...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 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 visible instances... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 412 pages
...kind, 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....indeed, in some writers visible instances of deep thoughts, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give would be of... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1823 - 398 pages
...kind, 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....indeed, in some writers visible instances of deep thoughts, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give would be of... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...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 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 visible instances... | |
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