 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 - Страница 356по John Locke - 1805 - 510 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Bertie Charles Forbes - 1951 - 626 страници
...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...cram ourselves with a great load of collections— we must chew them over again. — CHANNING. Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1917 - 608 страници
...— EMERSON. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...knowledge ; it is thinking makes what we read ours. — LOCKE. Books are the true levellers. They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society,... | |
 | North Carolina Library Commission - 1917 - 498 страници
...read"; then, "Let us digest them; otherwise, they enter our memory but not our minds." Locke says, "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours * * * There is no part wherein the understanding needs a more careful... | |
 | 1905 - 518 страници
...success won by Mrs. Creighton and Lady Burne-Jones. — " Lorna," in the British Weekly. READ AND DIGEST. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking that makes what is read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves... | |
 | John Locke - 1922 - 294 страници
...have read of every thing are thought to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Beading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge,...read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is » Salt. 2 Sec. 12. 8 See sees. 13, 24, 42. not enough to cram our selves with a great load of collections... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 страници
...reflection, must finish him. " 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 is read ours. " We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman - 1924 - 360 страници
...the bad readers? — F. TENNYSON JESSE, The Bookman, Vol. 49, page 316. 9. Cramming vs. ruminating: Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes over what we read. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves... | |
 | 1924 - 458 страници
...of the Western World (5) Seventeen (4) Imitation of Christ (/j) Poems (7) ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FOR 1931 "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." AUTHOR* JEsop (n) Aldrich (7) Allen (5) Aristotle (13) Austen (20) Balzac... | |
 | Nimrod - 1927 - 438 страници
...subject, " Those who have read of everything," says he, " are thought to understand everything too, but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind...ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless ADDISON AND VIRGIL 189 we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." I... | |
 | John Locke - 1992 - 424 страници
...apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind...not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of colletions; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are,... | |
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