Mortimer Adler Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

• 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 Adler

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Thinking

• Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wisdom, Mean, Class

• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Wisdom, Book

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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