#libraries

CREATION The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. — Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475 Norman COUSINS (1915- ) ↗

— Cousins

#life

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#library #love

The harvest of the years awaits you here, Culled with slow toil, and heaped with bloody sweat, The truths that men have died to bring to light Are laid before you in these quiet halls. Upon these shelves your eager hands shall find The keys to open doors not yet unlocked, The torch to kindle new and brighter lamps, The chart to plot your course beyond the stars, The clues to all the labyrinths of thought. Here you shall meet the men whose names are carved Deep-hewn forever on the rocks of time... You shall be guests of all the greatest minds. ↗

— Josephine P. Beaty

#libraries #reading #men

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#reading #read

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#libraries #library #reading #read

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. ↗

— Brian Selznick

#library

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#libraries #library

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

— Ray Bradbury

#libraries #past #without

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

— Barbara Tuchman

#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #classes #did #doctors #guinea