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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.
- Horace Mann, 1883

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
-Frank Kafka

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
- Clarence Day

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book and you should learn to think for yourself.
-Maxim Gorky

The illiterate of the 21^st century will be not those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-Alvin Toffler

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

If information is the currently of democracy, then libraries are the banks.
-Wendell Ford

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
-Chinese proverb

The highest result of education is tolerance.
-Hellen Keller

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
-Emma Goldman

A library implies an act of faith.
-Victor Hugo

Books may well be the only true magic.
-Alice Hoffman

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
-Cicero

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
- Lady Bird Johnson

Libraries are not made; they grow.
- Augustine Birrell

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

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.
-Groucho Marx

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
-Anne Herbert, The Whole Earth Catalog

The dissemination of knowledge is one of the cornerstones of civilization.
- John F. Budd

It is impossible to enter a large library… without feeling an inward sensation of reverence, and without catching some sparks of noble emulation, from the mass of mind which is scattered around you.
- James Crossley

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the heart of men centuries dead.
- Clarence Day

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now — only that place where the books are kept.
- John Steinbeck

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
- Mark Twain

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
- Descartes

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way.
- Franklin P. Adams

It is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book
-John Waters

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle