Quotes from Mortimer Adler

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you don't already possess

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.