Curiosity Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and…

— Edward P. Jones

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

— Carolyn Wells

“A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance at their core, maybe the library…

— Josh Hanagarne

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

... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You…

— Carolyn Wells

I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information…

— Chuck Klosterman

“If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it…

— Graceanne A. Decandido

“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the…

— Barbara Fister

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or…

— John Cotton Dana

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and…

— Alberto Manguel

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution,…

— Robert Hughes

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet…

— Donald J Adams