Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Holbrook Jackson (British Journalist)

George Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. Holbrook Jackson was born in Liverpool, England. He worked as a clerk, while freelancing as a writer. Around 1900 he was in the lace trade in Leeds, where he met A. R. Orage; together they founded the Leeds Arts Club. At that time Jackson was a Fabian socialist, but also influenced by Nietzsche. It was Jackson who introduced Orage to Nietzsche, lending him a copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in 1900.

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A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Books

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest of cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Censorship

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Reading

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Reading, Books

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Vice

Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Genius, Creativity

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Happiness

Your readiest desire is your path to joy even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Happiness, Being Ourselves

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Wealth

Happiness is a form of courage.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Happiness

Intuition is reason in a hurry.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Reason

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence”.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Solitude

No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Age

Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Dogs

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Habits

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Patience

The newest books are those that never grow old.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Reading, Books

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man’s life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Sorrow, Sadness

Your library is your portrait.
Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Libraries

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