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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... "
Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island - Page 448
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THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE

J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...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...
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The Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1802 - 184 pages
...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...
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Philosophical beauties selected from the works of John Locke

John Locke - 1802 - 308 pages
...\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...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...•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...
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...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...
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The conduct of the understanding. To which is prefixed, a sketch of the life ...

John Locke - 1812 - 178 pages
...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...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. Analysis ...

John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...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...
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued ..., Volume 6

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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The Works of John Locke, Volume 3

John Locke - 1823 - 404 pages
...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...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now added, i. analysis ...

John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...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...
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