John Locke: Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking…
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. So far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours; without that it is so much loose matter floating in our brain.
In today’s wordsReading gives the mind only the raw materials of knowledge; thinking is what makes them ours. We own an idea only as far as we see how it connects; without that, it's just loose material floating in our heads.
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