Mortimer Adler citáty

Mortimer Jerome Adler byl americký aristotelský filosof a spisovatel, spolutvůrce programu The Great Books. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. prosinec 1902 – 28. červen 2001
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Mortimer Adler nejznámější citáty

„Telefonní seznam je plný faktů, ale neobsahuje jedinou myšlenku.“

Originál: (en) The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Zdroj: [Adler, Mortimer, Van Doren, Geraldine, 1988, Reforming education: the opening of the American mind, Macmillan, angličtiny]

Mortimer Adler: Citáty anglicky

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

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

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”

Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”

Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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

Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”

Zdroj: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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

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

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

Zdroj: Joseph Allen (1979). The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body. p. 134

“You can't be a philosopher and an activist. If you do, you get all mixed up.”

Zdroj: 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.

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

Zdroj: 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.”

Zdroj: 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.

“An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.”

Zdroj: Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977), p. 255

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