![]() Thinking must be kindled, like a fire by a draught it must be sustained by some interest in the matter in hand. ![]() Reading and learning are things that anyone can do of his own free will but not so thinking. A man cannot turn over anything in his mind unless he knows it he should, therefore, learn something but it is only when he has turned it over that he can be said to know it. For it is only when a man looks at his knowledge from all sides, and combines the things he knows by comparing truth with truth, that he obtains a complete hold over it and gets it into his power. In the same way, a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for himself, it has much less value than a far smaller amount which he has thoroughly pondered. A library may be very large but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged.
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