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Joshua Reynolds: It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to…

It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.

In today’s wordsWe learn to invent by being familiar with the inventions of others, just as we learn to think by reading the thoughts of others.

Joshua ReynoldsCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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