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Thinking Quotes by 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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 except…
- 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.…
- 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.…
- 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,…
- Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.
- 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 person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
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