Quotes by : Mortimer J. Adler

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.....

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding....

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is....

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

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell....

We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that....

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden....

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