Scholar Quote by Joanna Russ

“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.”

— Stephanie Harvey

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just…

— Benjamin Hoff

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the…

— Michael Moore

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the…

— Michael Moore

“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.”

— James Rozoff

“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed to know…

— Simon R. Green

“People are either scholars or learners, everyone else are mobs.”

— Imam Ali bin abi Taleb

“Again, I don't fully understand my emotion response to the library or trust it. It was the site of a series of intellectual revelations…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might've told her, not just the clean and productive.”

— Matthew J. Sullivan

“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

“Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.”

— Alberto Manguel