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Top 20 Alan Jacobs Quotes (2025 Update)

Alan Jacobs Quote: “The person who wants to think will have to practice patience and master fear.”

1. “The person who wants to think will have to practice patience and master fear.”

— Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs Quote: “About some things – about many things! – we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until some issues are no longer up for grabs.”

2. “About some things – about many things! – we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until some issues are no longer up for grabs.”

— Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs Quote: “If everything is a matter of opinion, and if everybody is entitled to his own opinion, force becomes the only way of settling differences of opinion.”

3. “If everything is a matter of opinion, and if everybody is entitled to his own opinion, force becomes the only way of settling differences of opinion.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “If you were to find yourself suddenly and completely isolated from your whole social circle because you no longer believe something that all of them believe, you wouldn’t be any less lonely because you could mutter to yourself that they weren’t real friends after all. You might even come to think that not-real friends are better than no friends at all.”

4. “If you were to find yourself suddenly and completely isolated from your whole social circle because you no longer believe something that all of them believe, you wouldn’t be any less lonely because you could mutter to yourself that they weren’t real friends after all. You might even come to think that not-real friends are better than no friends at all.”

— Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs Quote: “Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value”; but it was tragically wrong “in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”16.”

5. “Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value”; but it was tragically wrong “in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.”16.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.”

6. “By reading, a man already having some wisdom can gain far more; but it is equally true that reading can make a man already inclined toward foolishness far, far more foolish.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “When I was ten, I read fairy stories in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

7. “When I was ten, I read fairy stories in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

— Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs Quote: “There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.”

8. “There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “There’s a famous and often-told story about the great economist John Maynard Keynes: once, when accused of having flip-flopped on some policy issue, Keynes acerbically replied, “When the facts change, sir, I change my mind. What do you do?”

9. “There’s a famous and often-told story about the great economist John Maynard Keynes: once, when accused of having flip-flopped on some policy issue, Keynes acerbically replied, “When the facts change, sir, I change my mind. What do you do?”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “It’s what you’re reading that matters, and how you’re reading it, not the speed with which you’re getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me.”

10. “It’s what you’re reading that matters, and how you’re reading it, not the speed with which you’re getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “Robinson’s analysis. People invested in not knowing, not thinking about, certain things in order to have “the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved” will be ecstatic when their instinct for consensus is gratified – and wrathful when it is thwarted.”

11. “Robinson’s analysis. People invested in not knowing, not thinking about, certain things in order to have “the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved” will be ecstatic when their instinct for consensus is gratified – and wrathful when it is thwarted.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there’s more to this book than you have ben yet able to receive.”

12. “You can reread not from love or hatred but from a sense, often inchoate, that there’s more to this book than you have ben yet able to receive.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.”

13. “Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.”

14. “And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “His students were usually struck first by his appearance: he wore old tweed jackets until they fell apart, kept well into his fifties overcoats that he had inherited from Albert, and, with his ruddy complexion and hearty manner, reminded many students of a grocer or a butcher. But the voice soon captivated them. Little.”

15. “His students were usually struck first by his appearance: he wore old tweed jackets until they fell apart, kept well into his fifties overcoats that he had inherited from Albert, and, with his ruddy complexion and hearty manner, reminded many students of a grocer or a butcher. But the voice soon captivated them. Little.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the “perchance.” And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.”

16. “And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the “perchance.” And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.” A.”

17. “Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.” A.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “And when people commend someone for “thinking for herself” they usually mean “ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.”

18. “And when people commend someone for “thinking for herself” they usually mean “ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.”

— Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs Quote: “To read old books is to get an education in possibility for next to nothing.”

19. “To read old books is to get an education in possibility for next to nothing.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “What is “secretly present in what he said about anything” is an openness to delight, to the sense that there’s more to the world than meets the jaundiced eye, to the possibility that anything could happen to someone who is ready to meet that anything.”

20. “What is “secretly present in what he said about anything” is an openness to delight, to the sense that there’s more to the world than meets the jaundiced eye, to the possibility that anything could happen to someone who is ready to meet that anything.”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “In most children but in relatively few adults, at least in our time, we may see this willingness to be delighted to the point of self-abandonment. This free and full gift of oneself to a story is what produces the state of enchantment. But why do we lose the desire – or if not the desire, the ability – to give ourselves in this way?”

21. “In most children but in relatively few adults, at least in our time, we may see this willingness to be delighted to the point of self-abandonment. This free and full gift of oneself to a story is what produces the state of enchantment. But why do we lose the desire – or if not the desire, the ability – to give ourselves in this way?”

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Alan Jacobs Quote: “When we look to the past... what we are always looking for is whatever “is better than we are”... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it.”

22. “When we look to the past... what we are always looking for is whatever “is better than we are”... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it.”

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