Greater good Quote by Anonymous

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with…

— Anonymous

“In a great library, you get into society in the widest sense. . . . From that great crowd you can choose what companions…

— Somerset Maughn

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

“Note found in the patron suggestion box: "You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They…

— Gina Sheridan

“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a…

— Deb Caletti

“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Most people enter a library and don’t hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all…

— Charles Martin

“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about connection. Connection…

— Bella Bathurst

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world.…

— Bella Bathurst

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching…

— Dan Brown

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a…

— Martha Cooley