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William Ellery Channing Quotes

William Ellery Channing quotes about mind

American Writer April 7, 1780 – October 2, 1842

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The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Ellery Channing
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. William Ellery Channing
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing quote: "Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature..."
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. William Ellery Channing
I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come. William Ellery Channing
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing quote: "It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with..."
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds... William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing quote: "It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which..."
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. William Ellery Channing

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