 | sir Matthew Digby Wyatt - 1861 - 202 pages
...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...chew them over again, they will not give us strength or nourishment." — LOCKE. " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 712 pages
...her to take what you give her, to keep it, and to bring it forth at your bidding. Bacon says, — "We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not •enough to cram ourselves with a load of collections. Unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment."... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 404 pages
...her to take what you give her, to keep it, and to bring it forth at your bidding. Bacon says,—" We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves • with a load of collections. Unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment."... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...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...again they will not give us strength and nourishment. PURPOSELESS READING. LOCKE. Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...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...great load of collections; unless we chew them over and over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. .... The memory may be stored, but... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...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 ( I ) " Locke is certainly a good writer, relatively to the greater part of his contemporaries ; his... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - Quotations - 1870 - 254 pages
...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...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are, indeed) in some writers, visible instances of deep thought, close and acute reasoning, and... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...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...again they will not give us strength and nourishment. Locke. MIXED KNOWLEDGE. Keep your view of men and things extensive, and depend upon it that a mixed... | |
 | Almanacs - 1870 - 956 pages
...furnishes the mind only with materials of kriowledge ; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to...again, they will not give us strength and nourishment." — Locke. "The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization... | |
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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 them over again, they will not... 
