Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go… — Howard Jacobson
If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. — Mark Pryor
A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. — Unknown Author
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher. — Sharon M. Draper
If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world? — Joan Bauer
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. — Siri Hustvedt
Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down. — Mark Plotkin
As a child I spent a lot of time at the library. — Tracy Chapman
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,'… — Myla Goldberg
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
A great library contains the diary of the human race. — Unknown Author
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. — William Godwin
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. — Ross Macdonald
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes
Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. — Jacques Ellul
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your… — Seneca the Younger
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter
Choose an author as you would a friend. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — Unknown Author
Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep. — Edwin Paxton Hood
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found. — Archibald Alexander Hodge
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out. — Charles Kettering
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the… — Unknown Author

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