Great Library Quotes
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A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.
— Thomas Fuller
Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
— Michael Dirda
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
— Italo Calvino
You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.
— Richard Flanagan
We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.
— Steve Maraboli
One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst
Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?
— Richard Jefferies
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
— Alan Garner
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.
— Brewster Kahle
Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.
— Kate Evangelista
He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library.
— Gene Wolfe
Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
— Chelsea Clinton
To emancipate the mind is the great task which printing came into the world to perform.
— Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.
— William H Gass
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
— Beverly Cleary
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The public library is the great equaliser.
— Keith Richards
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
— George Mercer Dawson
In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone - the library. And I never met a library I didn't like.
— William Stafford
A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages.
— John Hill Burton
A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
— George Gilfillan
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
— Nicholson Baker