 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
 | Henry Forster Burder - Conduct of life - 1827 - 144 pages
...profitable method of reading, I would offer a few remarks. " Reading," observes Mr. Locke, " furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking...to cram ourselves with a great load of collections : — there are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thoughts, close and acute reasoning,... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 432 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 - 1828 - 422 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... | |
 | Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...benefit the possessor. " We are of the ruminating kind," says a learned writer, " 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. There are, indeed, in some writers visible instanoes... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...while on ourselves we stand, The sea is curt, and that defends the land. Dryden. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what we read ears : it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections -, unless we chew them over... | |
 | Rev. Charles BRIDGES - Pastoral theology - 1830 - 696 pages
...above your shelves.' On the Improvement of the Mind, ch. i. Thus again Mr. Locke — 'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is...to cram ourselves with a great load of collections. — There are indeed in some writers instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and ideas... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowlege ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of...not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of food ; unless we chew it over again, it will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowlege ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of...not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of food ; unless we chew it over again, it will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed... | |
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