If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 15
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 49
... The person who, at any stage of a conversation, disagrees, should at least hope to reach agreement in the end. He should be as much prepared to have his own mind changed as seek to change the mind of another ... No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 148
A good rule always describes the ideal performance.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 84
The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 128
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 138-139
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 143
Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 166
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 173
...The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing the 'archaic' Homeric vocabulary.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: 178
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