"The telephone book is full of facts, but……" — Mortimer Adler

"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."

— Mortimer Adler

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87 Quotes by Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically…
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of…
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there…
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we…
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things…
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the…
Love without conversation is impossible.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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