Library Quotes - Page 6

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Reading is seeing by proxy.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

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 than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?