Brain Quote by Ray Bradbury

Without the library, you have no civilization.

— Ray Bradbury

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world…

— Danielle Steel

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s…

— Guillermo del Toro

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the…

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

— Tamora Pierce

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure…

— James H. Billington

“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid…

— James Gleick

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton