Luca Pacioli (1445–1517) Italian father of accounting
As quoted in The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio, p. 124
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”
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Context: This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
“Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book II, Ch. 12
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