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Book Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
- If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading…
- If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do…
- The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
- ....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about…
- All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
- 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…
- A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must…
- The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
- If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will…
- Books are absent teachers.
- If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a…
- In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through…
- Being influential is not the mark of a great book.
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- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough