476 Quotes About Libraries

I am proud to say that I am not in it for the money. If I made a million dollars, I would donate most of it to various charities and libraries.

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.

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

...strong marketing efforts are critical for a library's survival, and video marketing is one of the most effective forms of marketing available today.

Good videos are rarely created by accident.

Wireless coverage can even be found on the summit of Mount Everest, the highest-elevated and arguably one of the most hostile surfaces on the planet. Wherever there is a wireless connection, you will inevitably find someone using a mobile device.

Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.

[I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.