Library Quotes

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A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book… — Melvil Dewey
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to… — Peter Lewis Allen
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge,… — Marilyn Johnson
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. — Caitlin Moran
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library. — Mark Jason Dominus
People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there. — Robert D. Putnam
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help… — Scott Turow
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Maxim Gorky
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that… — Robertson Davies
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
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… — Norman Mailer
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their… — Charles Lamb
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use… — Peter Drucker
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one… — Lawrence Clark Powell
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that… — Irving Stone
The richest minds need not large libraries. — Amos Bronson Alcott
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries — Louis Pasteur
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. — George Henry Lewes
Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. — Robert Mayer

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