Jeremy Collier Quotes

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.