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The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Mortimer Adler
Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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
Wisdom, Ignorance, Thinking

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Mortimer Adler
Life, Wisdom, Book
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined by a master class who own the means of production, and in which the fruits of work are alienated from workers to the benefit of masters.

Mortimer Adler
Wisdom, Mean, Class

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