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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information

“The books to be read should not be limited to those written in English…. Instead it should be devoted to the great works of history, biography, philosophy, theology, natural science, social science, and mathematics, as well as the… tradition of Western literature -- in English translation… Its aim should not be a survey of Western civilization, but an effort to understand the basic ideas and issues in Western thought.”

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2

“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent 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 don't already possess”

Mortimer J. Adler

“It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.”

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315

“Every seminar should involve at its conclusion the assignment of a short composition in which students would attempt to state how their understanding of the book discussed in the seminar was increased by their participation in the discussion.”

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316

“Montaigne speaks of an “Abecedarian” ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. The first is the ignorance of those who, not knowing their A-B-C’s, cannot read at all. The second is the ignorance of those who have misread many books. They are, as Alexander Pope rightly calls them, “bookful blockheads, ignorantly read.” There have always been literate ignoramuses, who have read too widely, and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all “sophomores.””

Mortimer J. Adler book How to Read a Book

Source: How to Read a Book (1940, 1972), p. 11

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

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2

“Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read any book I write – and they do.”

Mortimer J. Adler

Source: F.N. D'Alession. " Philosopher, reformer Mortimer Adler, father of 'Great Books' program, dies at 98 http://lubbockonline.com/stories/062901/upd_075-4286.shtml#.VVHE0_ntmko." at lubbockonline.com, June 29, 2001.