Quotes by : Mortimer J. Adler

Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer – Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus – Tragedies4. Sophocles....

Books are absent teachers.

You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the....

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how....

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what....

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably....

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of....

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The trouble is that many people regard disagreement as unrelated to either teaching or being taught.....