Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. -
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. -
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. -
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. -
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
More quotes by John Locke
- To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
- Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.