Library Quotes

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

“A library is a hospital for the mind.”

“We cannot have a great university without a great library.”

“You will find the key to everything in books. And the door to everything in the library.”

“The silence of the great library was absolute.”

“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.”

“Librarians are the quintessential entertainers.”

“In a democracy, the library is the people's university.”

“A great library is a place of refreshment, a place of solace, a place of inspiration.”

“The library is the heart of the university.”

“Let the library be a center of promotion for the city's best things.”

“The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a watch-dog of its contents. The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.”

“Libraries are cornerstones of our communities.”

“Librarians are the keepers of the word, and the guardians of the dream.”

“Our libraries are the best bargain in town, the only place you can get entertainment and information for free.”

“The great libraries of the world are the public universities of the people.”

“You cannot have a first-class city without a first-class library.”

“The librarian is a guide, a navigator, a facilitator. He or she is not a censor.”

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries.”

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”