How to Read a Book

How to Read a Book

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Published
2014
Extent
448 pages
Language
English
ISBN
9781476790152
Subjects
Essays, Letters & Language · المقالات والكتابةLanguage · لغة
Catalogued
Nov 21, 2025
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Description

Authors (from API): Mortimer J. Adler; Charles Van

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

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

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True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

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

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The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

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A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

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