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Understanding Quotes by Mortimer Adler
- 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…
- Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of…
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
- 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,…
- 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…
- To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
More Understanding Quotes
- Whenever you feel alone or hurt. Don't forget to talk to the most understanding person. Talk to yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
- Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence… — Albert Camus
- No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi