Library Quotes - Page 8

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

  Archibald MacLeish

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• A great library contains the diary of the human race.

  Geraldine Dawson

  Race, Diaries, Librarian

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• My alma mater was books, a good library.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Reading, Alma Mater

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

  Augustine Birrell

  Believe, Men, Able

  Augustine Birrell (1902). “Collected Essays”

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• But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

  James Boswell

  Men, One Day

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (2008). “James Boswell: the journal of his German and Swiss travels, 1764”, Yale Univ Pr

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• If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Strong, Book

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

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• As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

  Ed Bradley

  Children, Book, Kids

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• It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

  Richard Baxter

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Richard Baxter (1825). “A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian politics, (or duties to our rulers and neighbours”, p.584

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• We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

  David McCullough

  School, Thinking, Life Is

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• I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

  Ray Bradbury

  Education, College, Years

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• If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Known, Ifs

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• Choose an author as you would a friend.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

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• With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

  Jacques Ellul

  Knowing, Facts, Whole

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Believe, Book

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

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• When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

  Jean Fritz

  Reading, Book, Christmas Eve

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• When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Reading, Steps, Literacy

  "O" Magazine, December 2003.

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Land, Soul

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• The Library is the heart of the University.

  Charles William Eliot

  Heart, University

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• A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

  Richard de Bury

  Wealth And Happiness, Zealous, All Things

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Book, Giving, Mind

  Newell Dwight Hillis (2012). “The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service”, p.42, tredition

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• Your library is your portrait.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Writing, Portraits

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• Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

  Sean Wilentz

  Reading, Kids, Ordinary

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• Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

  George Gilfillan

  Book, Secret, Use

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