The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

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.

—Mortimer Adler

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

—Mortimer Adler

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

—Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.

—Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.

—Mortimer Adler

The truth is more important than the facts.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

—Robert Staughton Lynd

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

—Anatole France

I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

—Benjamin Disraeli