Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Quote by Jeremy Collier

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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing...

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing...

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would...

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would...

A brave mind is always impregnable.

A brave mind is always impregnable.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on...

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on...

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty...

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty...

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily...

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I...

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I...

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of...

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more...

Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty

Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as...

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as...