Jeremy Collier Quotes

"True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Courage, Mind, Result)

"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Difficulty)

"Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Nature, Conviction, Learning, Modesty)

"In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Happiness, Life, Men, Acting, Existence, Man, Opinion)

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: People, Company, Disorder, Idleness, Nothing)

"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: School)

"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases."
- Jeremy Collier

"Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Being, Books, Burden, Solitude, Support)

"Belief gets in the way of learning."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Belief, Learning)

"A brave mind is always impregnable."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: Mind)

"People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company."
- Jeremy Collier
(Related: People, Company, Nothing)