Knowledge Repository Quotes

The library is the temple of learning.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Libraries...house our dreams.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

A library is the door to many lives.

The Library is the heart of the University.

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.