American scholar Quote by Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is…

— Matthew Battles

“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

“I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom,…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A good library contains something in it to offend everyone.”

— Jo Goodwin

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always…

— Barack Obama

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning…

— Carl Gustav Jung

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the…

— Barbara Fister

“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose…

— Anne Fadiman