Perhaps you are beginning to see how essential a part of reading it is to be perplexed and know it. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book, 123.
Month: December 2023
On practice and performance
“Cry in practice, laugh in competition.”
Quoted by Paul Assaiante, in this interview