 | Henry Barnard - 1882 - 1112 страници
...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...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 give us... | |
 | 1882 - 1112 страници
...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...the ruminating 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 420 страници
...be conscientious and discriminative. "Reading," says Locke, "furnishes the mind only with material of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours....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 will... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 страници
...is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinkmg [which] 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 them over again, they will not give us strength... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1900 - 284 страници
...so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is thinking makes wna t we rea d ours. We are of the ruminating 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1902 - 312 страници
...philosopher, "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 with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us... | |
 | George W. Rine - 1902 - 290 страници
...I had remained as ignorant as they.—Hobbes. Reading maketh a full man.—Bacon. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.—Locke. The daily study of the Scriptures will have a sanctifying influence upon the mind. You... | |
 | 1903 - 170 страници
...well done, but the simplest thing in the world to do. — Alice Wellington Rollins. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge ; it is...the ruminating 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... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 страници
...possible, to think before you read, or at least while you are reading. —PROF. BLACKIE. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge : it is...the ruminating 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... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1905 - 280 страници
...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...the ruminating 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... | |
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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... 
