Quote by John R. Bradley

The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and…

— Edward Gibbon

“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.”

— Thomas Fuller

“All was not lost when the Library at Alexandria was burned”

— Mark Wallace Maguire

“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class English home,…

— H.G. Wells

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further…

— Brewster Kahle

“Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.”

— Mike Aquilina

“Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells…

— William Golding

“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or the universities…

— Matthew Battles

“The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the…

— Alberto Manguel

“But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence and suggestions.”

— Amy Halloran

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on…

— Paul Auster