Mortimer Adler Quotes

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Reading brings us unknown friends

We read books to find out who we are.

That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.