Quotes by Library He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. John Milton libraryreadingbook If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. John Kenneth Galbraith librarybookneeds Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. John F. Kennedy censorship-in-bookslibraryshould Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] John F. Kennedy libraryoctobershould Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libraryerrorsmind The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. John Redwood libraryimprovementself To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it. John Shelby Spong archiveslibrarytwo We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. John Thomas Sladek libraryphoneskids Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory. John William Strutt librarydiscoveryfirsts Nothing is more impotent than an unread library. John Waters library Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe librarydealsworld To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. Jonathan Taylor Thomas librarystudentsbook Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. Jonathan Zittrain librarydigitalbook The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. Jorge Luis Borges librarydiscoverybook If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library. Jorge Luis Borges librarynamesfather The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function. Jose Ortega y Gasset librarianlibrarybook Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book. Jose Ortega y Gasset librarygivingbook I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. Jorge Luis Borges libraryparadisebook I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. Joseph Fiennes librarysmellbook My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. Joseph Howe librarybookworld«1718192021222324252627»
