Mortimer Adler Quotes

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

If you would judge, understand.

Information is not knowledge.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

Knowledge is easy to come by. Understanding what you know takes much longer.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.