Great books are those which open great new questions. Great books are misread if their effect is to stop investigation.

In other words, the wiser people become, whether in science, religion, politics or art, the less dogmatic they become. Apparently, the better we know the territory of human experience, the more aware we are of the limitations of the verbal maps we can make of it.

~page 263

[tags] S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, great books[/tags]