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

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

Mortimer Adler
Understanding, Agree, Disagree
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.

Mortimer Adler
Book, Reading, Understanding

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.

Mortimer Adler
Understanding, Facts, Obstacles
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

Mortimer Adler
Angel, Ideas, Understanding
Mortimer Jerome Adler (1982). “The angels and us”, Scribner

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