"The person who says he knows what he……" — Mortimer Adler
"The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks."
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Mortimer Adler
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87 Quotes by Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler has 87 quotes on this site.
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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically…
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One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of…
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there…
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we…
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things…
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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the…
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Love without conversation is impossible.
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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence…
— Emily Bronte
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Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears,…
— Charles Darwin
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No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel…
— Billy Graham
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical…
— Lord Kelvin
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Whenever I hear a man or women express hatred for any race, I wonder just what it is in themselves…
— Thomas Dreier
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Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
— Hector Berlioz
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Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never…
— Michael Shaara
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I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
— Julie Taymor
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Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we…
— Arthur Dove
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There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the…
— David Lloyd-Jones
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