Able Quote by David Nasaw

“the expansion of the public library movement in the United States, one of the chief goals behind Andrew Carnegie's widespread philanthropy was the creation…

— Public Library Association

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no…

— John Redwood

Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the…

— David Nasaw

“But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips”

— Rachel Caine

“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and…

— Scott Douglas

If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read…

— Melinda Gates

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys…

— John Taylor Gatto

“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

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model…

— Anonymous

“We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.”

— Herbert S. White

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar