Mortimer Adler citáty
Mortimer Adler
Datum narození: 28. prosinec 1902
Datum úmrtí: 28. červen 2001
Mortimer Jerome Adler byl americký aristotelský filosof a spisovatel, spolutvůrce programu The Great Books.
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americký psychologCitáty Mortimer Adler
„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
In: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
„True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, 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.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, 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.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
„A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„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. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
„Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.“
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
