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Mortimer Adler on Books

1902–2001 United States

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

Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990)

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.

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

Book of Humorous Quotations9 (1998)

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mortimer Adler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.