Quotes by Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away t — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artific — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retai — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer – Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus – Tragedies4. Sophocles – Tra — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inat — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
In short, we can only learn from our "betters". — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mathematics is one of the major modern mysteries. Perhaps it is the leading one, occupying a place in our society simila — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment. — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book — Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading