The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Mortimer J. Adler, from How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
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