“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Mortimer Jerome Adler è stato un filosofo statunitense, educatore ed autore popolare.
Come filosofo seguì la tradizione aristotelica e tomistica. Visse per lunghi periodi a New York City, Chicago, San Francisco e San Mateo. Adler lavorò presso la Columbia University, la University of Chicago e la Encyclopædia Britannica, e fondò l'Institute for Philosophical Research. Adler è stato sposato due volte divenendo padre per quattro volte.
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.”
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316
Origine: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Origine: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
Origine: 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.”
Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315
Origine: 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.”
Origine: 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.
Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 316
“The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.”
Origine: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 312
Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
Origine: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 314
Origine: 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.
Origine: Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977), p. 255