 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...  Forbes - Page 42publié par - 1951Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...are 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 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 168 pages
...be mistaken in. Those who have read of .every thing, are thought to understand every thing too ; Lut it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind .only .with materials of knowledge, k is thinking jnakes what we read ours. We are of a ruminating •kind, «nd it is not enough to cram... | |
 | John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...apt 'o be mistaken in. Those \vhp have read of every filing, are taught to understand every tiling too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the...mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking iniikes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with... | |
 | John Locke - 1802 - 184 pages
...he mistaken in. Those who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too; hut it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what ' wereadoursy We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...apt to be mistaken in. Those •who have read of eye|^- 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 are of the ruminating kinfl, and: it1 is not enough to cram ourselves with... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 520 pages
...to be mistaken in. Those •who have read of every thing, are thought to understand ewry thingStoo; but it is not always so. 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... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...ESSAY 39READING. (Locke.) THOSE who have read of every thing, are thought to understand every thing too ; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 178 pages
...are 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 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...are apt to be mistakcu in. Those who have road 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 thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating- kind, and it js not enough to cram ourselves with... | |
 | 1820 - 390 pages
...for so doing. FOR 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... | |
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