Mortimer Adler - Understanding Quotes

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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

Every seminar should involve at its conclusion the assignment of a short composition in which students would attempt to state how their understanding of the book discussed in the seminar was increased by their participation in the discussion.

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Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

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To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

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The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare — and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

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