Quotes

Quotes about Libraries

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Francis Bacon

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

J.G. Saxe

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ray Bradbury

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

Henry "Chips" Channon