Jeremy Collier Quotes

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Eating a lot makes you fat. Reading a lot makes you wise.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.