“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
The Journey of the Mind to God
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
“To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live
without mirrors is to live without the self.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Selected Poems 1976-1986 (1987), Marrying the Hangman
Context: To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live
without mirrors is to live without the self. She is
living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and
on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice
comes through darkness and has no face. This voice
becomes her mirror.
Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970) American Christian radical
The Book of Ammon
Context: Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one with love, courage, and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Beauty
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
“Education with humility leads to wisdom; without humility, it leads to arrogance.”
Thomas Anthony Daly (1960) Catholic bishop
Bishop Daly: Catholic schools should embrace faith, never compromise https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/46624/bishop-daly-catholic-schools-should-embrace-faith-never-compromise (18 November 2020)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 101 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA101 <br class="br">Context: We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporaneousness with the author or the original reader by means of a reconstruction of his historical horizon before we could begin to grasp the meaning of what is said. A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" - Theosophy Vol. 26, No. 8 (June 1938) http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/bruno.html
“I find in myself by the grace of God a satisfaction without nourishment, a love without fear”
Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) Italian author and nurse