Culture Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.”

— Mark Bauerlein

“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

For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the…

— Helen Vendler

“What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.”

— Michael Gorman

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

— Francis Keppel

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource…

— David McCullough

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past…

— Neil Gaiman

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have…

— Swami Vivekananda

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more.…

— Alan Moore

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

— John F. Kennedy

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when…

— Nicholas Meyer