
From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.
– Mortimer J Adler
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- The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. – Mortimer J Adler
- 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
- Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – 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 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
- Don’t be fretting…about me marrying. Marrying’s a trouble and not marrying’s a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows. – LM Montgomery
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
- A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments. – Nikki Rowe
- What is important may or may not be important but what is thought to be important is indeed important. – Hemanta Bhatt
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- You are a reader, and therefore a thinker, an observer, a living soul who wants more out of this human experience. – Salil Jha
- I don’t so much hope that any reader -œagrees- with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are. – TaNehisi Coates
- From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou’s point of view, you develop appreciation. – Ram D
- Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point? – Dada Bhagwan
- The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating. – Anita Shreve
- It is obvious that the prevalent Christian world-view is not a Kingdom world-view – Sunday Adelaja
- Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. – Archibald Marwizi
- It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life. – Anthony Marais
- Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. – Brooks Atkinson
- We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don’t view our faith through the eyes of culture. – Stephen D Livesday
- When they look at a beautiful view, most people see their memories, not the view! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice. – Louis B Saloman
- Wind has no home in the world,and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe,and therefore returns to God. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I think therefore I am. Does that mean ‘I feel therefore I’m not’? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. – Jeanette Winterson
- She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. – William Shakespeare
- I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian – AE Samaan
- I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian. – AE Samaan
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. – Alfred Adler
- Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. – Alfred Adler
- People who live according to the world’s standard are confused, and therefore get into all kinds of trouble that leads to destruction. – Sunday Adelaja
- Your Words Are Vital, They Rule You And You Rule With Them Therefore, Speak Creative Words Always! – Jaachynma NE Agu
