Quote by Barbara Tuchman

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up

Summary

This quote suggests that abandoning one's own personal ideas and perspectives to believe unquestioningly in a written text is akin to committing a grave spiritual offense. It emphasizes the importance of individual thinking and understanding rather than blindly following external sources. By encouraging critical thinking and personal reflection, the quote urges individuals to trust their own intellect and intuition, rather than solely relying on prescribed knowledge from books or authorities.

Topics

Innovation

By Barbara Tuchman

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawl

That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Science Biology Spirtuality

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of th

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Future

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Meister Eckhart

Birth

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Youth

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, t

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Life Depression Cancer Dying

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

Love Jealousy Debt

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Libraries

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Inspirational

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. Whe

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

Anger

Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it

Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs.

Teresa Sue McAdams

Philosophy Motivational Inspirational Self Discovery Personal Growth