 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 to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew thorn over again, they will not...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 356by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1896 - 854 pages
...it makes some pregnant remarks pertinent to the futility of thoughtless perusal. Reading [he says] furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. . . . The mind is backward in itself to be at the pains to trace every argument to its original, and... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...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 that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pages
...mitigate the sorroiu that fotvs therefrom. READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge j it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of...kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a load of collections j unless we chew them over again, they will not give us any strength. ETIQUETTE,... | |
 | Education - 1849 - 206 pages
...the mind with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we i4 aJ our1«. We arc of a ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves...a great load of collections ; unless we chew them aver again, lliL'y will not give us strength and nourishment." As much ealing and Hub exorcise, is... | |
 | 1849 - 580 pages
...remembering what he has read. — Dr. \\atts on the Mind, pp. 61, 62, 66, 67. 72, 73. " Says Locke. 'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.' . . . Says Dugald Stewart, ' nothing, in truth, has such a tendency... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1849 - 580 pages
...reflection. Books can afford but little improvement to those who do not think as well as read " Says Locke, 'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.' . . . Says Dugald Stewart, ' nothing, in truth, has such a tendency... | |
 | Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...advanced аЪоте what is human I— Seneca. READING furnishes the mind only with the material« of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours....collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not giïe us strength and nourishment — Loch. How often do we sigh for opportunities of doing good, whilst... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...knowledge than we should acquire eloquence by learning the words in a lexicon. " Reading," says Locke, " furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge...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... | |
 | Arts - 1852 - 436 pages
...£30,000. Reading and Thinking, Those who read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind...makes what We read ours. We are of the ruminating iin.l, and It is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collecting; unless we chew them... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 436 pages
...READING AND THINKING. — They who have read about 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 that makes what we read ours. "VVe are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves... | |
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