Mortimer Adler Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Men, Judging

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

• 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 Adler

  Book, Reading, Giving

• If we consider men and women generally, and apart from their professions or occupations, there is only one situation I can think of in which they almost pull themselves up by their bootstraps, making an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth.

  Mortimer Adler

  Love, Reading, Men

  "How to Speak How to Listen".

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

  Mortimer Adler

  Reading, Effort, Able

  "How to Read a Book". Book by Mortimer Adler, 1940.

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