Motivational Quotes

Libraries

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

- Macneice, Louis

Best Quotes about Libraries

What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.

Macleish, Archibald

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

Tuchman, Barbara

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Birrell, Augustine

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Ball, Hugo

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.

Masson, Thomas L.

My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Rowan, Carl

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Cousins, Norman

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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Adams, J. Donald

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Your library is your paradise.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.

Oxenstierna, Count Axel Gustafsson

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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A library implies an act of faith.

Hugo, Victor

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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

Macneice, Louis

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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Greer, Germaine

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An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.