Quotes by : Mortimer J. Adler

In short, we can only learn from our "betters".

We do not have to know everything about something in order to understand it too many facts are often....

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn....

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of....

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

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives....

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to....

The reader tries to uncover the skeleton that the book conceals. The author starts with the skeleton....

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

You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend....