#libraries

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

Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader. ↗

— S.R. Ranganathan

#libraries #librarians

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

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#languor #libraries #sexuality #dreams

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#libraries #sarah-j-maas #throne-of-glass #idea

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

— Andrew Carnegie

#community #enrich #libraries #community

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

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

— Barbara Tuchman

#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#libraries #paraphrased #library