Library Quotes

“A library is a hospital for the mind.”

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

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

“Librarians are the quintessential entertainers.”

“The silence of the great library was absolute.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The library should be a living, breathing thing.”

“The most important service that a librarian can perform is to link a person with a book.”

“So, if you want to have a great society, you have to have a great library.”

“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.”

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