Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
– Mortimer J Adler
Related Quotes:
- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J Adler
- True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. – Mortimer J Adler
- Books are absent teachers. – Mortimer J Adler
- The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him. – Mortimer J Adler
- Don’t try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you. – Mortimer J Adler
- The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. – Mortimer J Adler
- From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. – Mortimer J Adler
- The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used. – Mortimer J Adler
- What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. – Mortimer J Adler
- Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it. – Mortimer J Adler
- The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. – Nora Ephron
- There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap – Kirtida Gautam
- In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for. – Ben Tolosa
- Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don’t let it use you. – Dan O Donnell
- You cannot build a complete memory with a single memory tool any more than you can build a complete building with a single carpentry tool. – Kenneth L Higbee
- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living. – Robert Thier
- Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. – Ian Mortimer
- Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel…A Very English Affair) – Faith Mortimer
- Reading is better than life. Without reading, you’re stuck with life. – Fran Lebowitz
- Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what’s important now by living in the present. – John Kuypers
- life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one – Stella Adler
- You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life. – Stella Adler
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. – Alfred Adler
- But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life – Renata Adler
- Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. – John Sloan
- You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life. – Amit Kalantri
- To me life is a journey seeking the basic of life. – Innasafa
- The first thing I understand is pain. – Ellis Adler
- The power-hungry individual follows a path to his own destruction. – Adler
- You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. – Stella Adler
- People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more. – Renata Adler
- Self-pity- is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative. – Renata Adler
- Do you realize how angry you sound?- must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language. – Renata Adler
- Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. – Felix Adler
- Food is what I love, and how I communicate love, and how I calm myself. – Tamar Adler
- Anyone who doesn’t want you to be happy with who you are is an ???????. ???? pleasing everyone else. You only live once. Who are you gonna do it for? – Dahlia Adler
- The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead – Warren Adler
- seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. – Alfred Adler
- My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind-”like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing. – Renata Adler