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Mortimer Adler Quotes

Mortimer Adler quotes about thinking

American Philosopher December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001

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There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. Mortimer Adler
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. Mortimer Adler
If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself. Mortimer Adler
The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do. Mortimer Adler
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. Mortimer Adler
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. Mortimer Adler
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception. Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler quote: "Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind."
Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind. Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler quote: "The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express..."
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. Mortimer Adler

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