Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or…

- Mortimer Adler

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

- Mortimer Adler

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 det…

- Mortimer Adler

Philosophy is everybody's business.

- Mortimer Adler

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sou…

- Mortimer Adler

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the stude…

- Mortimer Adler

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

- Mortimer Adler

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us t…

- Mortimer Adler

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.

- Mortimer Adler