Libraries Quotes

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.

American Proverb

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

T S Eliot

Medicine For the Soul.

Ramses II Library Inscription

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices and the myrrh.

Judah Ibn Tibbon

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm, continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, reliable, deep and long-lasting.

Germaine Greer

To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.

Jon Bing

Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.

Walter Savage Landor

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.

Sidney Sheldon

Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.

Lauren Ward

To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.

Carlos María Domínguez

When I got my library card, that’s when my life began.

Rita Mae Brown

Libraries are our friends.

Neil Gaiman

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

Laura Bush

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Albert Einstein

When in doubt go to the library.

J K Rowling

Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.

R David Lankes

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Laura Bush

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

Germaine Greer