The Art of ThinkingF. Warne, 1904 - 153 páginas |
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... Bacon say in his first aphorism , " Man the servant and interpreter of Nature can do and understand as much as he has observed con- cerning the order of Nature in outward things or in the mind ; more he can neither know nor do . " The ...
... Bacon say in his first aphorism , " Man the servant and interpreter of Nature can do and understand as much as he has observed con- cerning the order of Nature in outward things or in the mind ; more he can neither know nor do . " The ...
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... Bacon says , " Conference makes mind . a ready man . " That is certainly an advan- tage to be sought after . How dull some learned men are ! Better habits of conversation would have saved them from the tardy heavy manner which it is ...
... Bacon says , " Conference makes mind . a ready man . " That is certainly an advan- tage to be sought after . How dull some learned men are ! Better habits of conversation would have saved them from the tardy heavy manner which it is ...
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... Bacon sums up the case for conversation by saying : " we toss our thoughts more easily , marshal them more orderly , we see how they look when they are turned into words ; finally , we wax wiser than ourselves . " Get a friend and ...
... Bacon sums up the case for conversation by saying : " we toss our thoughts more easily , marshal them more orderly , we see how they look when they are turned into words ; finally , we wax wiser than ourselves . " Get a friend and ...
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... Bacon . The irony of the situation is this : that whilst Subtlety of we are trying to avoid prejudice we prejudice . are suffering from its warping influence all the time , due no doubt to some quality of the THE ART OF THINKING 35.
... Bacon . The irony of the situation is this : that whilst Subtlety of we are trying to avoid prejudice we prejudice . are suffering from its warping influence all the time , due no doubt to some quality of the THE ART OF THINKING 35.
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... Bacon says on this head , " The human under- standing , when any proposition has been laid * " On the Education of the Judgment . " See Modern Culture , p . 210 . down ( either from general admission or belief , or THE ART OF THINKING 43.
... Bacon says on this head , " The human under- standing , when any proposition has been laid * " On the Education of the Judgment . " See Modern Culture , p . 210 . down ( either from general admission or belief , or THE ART OF THINKING 43.
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analogy Aristotle art of thinking authority Bacon says believe brain chapter character Charlotte Brontë classification commercial value constructive thinking course criticism danger Darwinism defined Descartes element Emerson emotion English Essay evidence example excellent experience facts feeling G. C. Lewis G. P. Putnam's Sons gilt gisms give habit heart ideas imagination important influence intellectual intuitions intuitive knowledge Jevons John Morley judgment kind knowledge KNOWLSON laws laws of thought ledge LEO TOLSTOY literary Locke Logic Longmans Macmillan matter means ment method mind-wandering moral nature Novum Organum observation opinion ourselves Philosophy phlogiston practice prejudice Principles of Psychology Professor question reader reading reason refer reflection Religion rules scientific sense Shakespeare social sphere suffer Suggestions sympathy teaching temperament tendency Theology theorist theory things thinker thinking faculty thought tion tive TOLSTOY Trained Intelligence true truth understanding words writing
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Página 62 - Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.
Página 18 - The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that 'this is I:' But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of 'I,' and 'me,' And finds 'I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Página 62 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Página 63 - For if we will reflect on our own ways of thinking, we shall find that sometimes the mind perceives the agreement or disagreement of two ideas immediately by themselves, without the intervention of any other: and this, I think, we may call 'intuitive knowledge.
Página 108 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. 'Think you, "mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? '- Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away.
Página 3 - To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think, is to weave them into garlands.
Página 27 - There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Página 22 - They sleep, and they rise up, and they find themselves, now in Europe, now in Asia; they see visions of great cities and wild regions; they are in the marts of commerce, or amid the islands of the South...
Página 36 - It has neither taste or choice of place, and all that it requires is room. There is scarcely a situation, except fire and water, in which a spider will not live. So, let the mind be as naked as the walls of an empty and forsaken tenement, gloomy as a dungeon, or ornamented with the richest abilities of thinking, let it be hot, cold, dark, or light, lonely or inhabited, still prejudice, if undisturbed, will fill it with the cob-webs, and live like the spider, where there seems nothing to live on.
Página 44 - The human understanding, when any proposition has been once laid down (either from general admission and belief, or from the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet either does not observe or despises them, or gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.