A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do;… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
