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Reading Furnishes The Mind Only With Materials Of Knowledge
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is
thinking that makes what we read ours.
-- John Locke
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The thoughts that come unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
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We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
-- John Locke (1632-1704)...
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
-- John Locke...
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. -- John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
-- John Locke...
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. -- Christopher Morley...
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is.
That is the smile: that what might not be, is. -- John Fowles, The Magu...
Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. John Dyke