The Art of ThinkingF. Warne, 1904 - 153 páginas |
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... with this opinion . People read a great deal more than they used to do - there is more to be read - but they think less . The chief danger to - day is that of intellectual vii B apathy . Life is so complex , the struggle for.
... with this opinion . People read a great deal more than they used to do - there is more to be read - but they think less . The chief danger to - day is that of intellectual vii B apathy . Life is so complex , the struggle for.
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... opinion . But let us suppose that we are anxious to give the matter a fair hearing , and carefully examine the evidence for and against . Even then , if we sound our thoughts , we became aware of a silent drift of opinion in favour of ...
... opinion . But let us suppose that we are anxious to give the matter a fair hearing , and carefully examine the evidence for and against . Even then , if we sound our thoughts , we became aware of a silent drift of opinion in favour of ...
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... . inclination we exhibit in respect of any report or opinion which harmonizes with our preconceived notions can only be compared in degree with the incredulity we entertain towards everything that opposes them . " * ( 42 THE ART OF ...
... . inclination we exhibit in respect of any report or opinion which harmonizes with our preconceived notions can only be compared in degree with the incredulity we entertain towards everything that opposes them . " * ( 42 THE ART OF ...
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... opinion not authorized by men of old criticism who were then all giants in knowledge ; nothing is to be put into the treasury of truth or know- ledge which has not the stamp of Greece or Rome upon it , and since their days will scarce ...
... opinion not authorized by men of old criticism who were then all giants in knowledge ; nothing is to be put into the treasury of truth or know- ledge which has not the stamp of Greece or Rome upon it , and since their days will scarce ...
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... opinion " domineers in a hundred different spheres and in as many different ways . The annals of science contain many opinion . " painful exhibitions , and nothing could be worse than the story of the " phlogiston " theory of fire ...
... opinion " domineers in a hundred different spheres and in as many different ways . The annals of science contain many opinion . " painful exhibitions , and nothing could be worse than the story of the " phlogiston " theory of fire ...
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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.