Library Quotes - Page 11

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

Those who delve into the scriptural library … find that to understand requires more than casual reading or perusal—there must be concentrated study. … One who studies the scriptures every day accomplishes far more than one who devotes considerable time one day and then lets days go by before continuing.

Once you read, you will be free forever.

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

The best place to find things: the public library.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.