Quote by John Locke
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. – John Locke

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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. – John Locke

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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. – John Locke

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I feel like Ive reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what Ive been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where Ive been, and beyond it. – Cathy Freeman

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – Lord Chesterfield

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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. – John Charles Polanyi

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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. – Talcott Parsons

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