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[Quote No.24612] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use." - William Dyer
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[Quote No.24613] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap." - David Eddings
From his book, 'King of the Murgos'
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[Quote No.24614] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.24615] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The libraries of America [and the world] are and must ever remain the home of free, inquiring minds. To them, our citizens - of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions - must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[Quote No.24616] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? [For information to be knowledge it must be organized, and for knowledge to be wisdom it must be true and helpful.]" - T. S. Eliot
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[Quote No.24619] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a 1000 years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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[Quote No.24624] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn’t any particular essay or ever a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life." - Gloria Estefan
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[Quote No.24626] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university." - Shelby Foote
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[Quote No.24627] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The richest person in the world - in fact, all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be." - Malcolm Forbes
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[Quote No.24628] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Anyone who stops learning is old whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. [by continuing to learn every day.]" - Henry Ford
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[Quote No.24629] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks." - Wendell Ford
U.S. Senator
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[Quote No.24634] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future." - Bill Gates
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[Quote No.24636] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The use of reading is to aid us in thinking." - Edward Gibbon
Historian who wrote,'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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[Quote No.24637] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"T‘is wise to learn; [and] t’is God-like to create." - John Godfrey
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[Quote No.24641] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Walking into a large library is like walking into a cathedral of ideas." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.24642] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Two forces are successfully influencing the education of a cultivated man [or woman]: art and science." - Maxim Gorky
Russian writer
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[Quote No.24647] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university..." - Vartan Gregorian
Twelfth president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York - a grant-making institution founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911.
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[Quote No.24654] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"What libraries give you are all three tenses - the past tense – the present tense in which we live - and the future that we can only imagine." - Pete Hamill
(1935 - ) is a prominent American journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
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[Quote No.24657] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"He who leaves home in search of knowledge walks in the Path of God." - Muhammad
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[Quote No.24667] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Wherever [they are so intolerant that] they burn books [that they do not agree with] they will also, in the end, burn human beings. [that disagree with them. The best defence against bad ideas is better ideas, an education system that develops rational, critical thinking skills, and a political system that encourages free access to information, debate and individual responsibility, so people can freely choose the better ideas.]" - Heinrich Heine
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[Quote No.24669] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I am what libraries and librarians have made me..." - Heraclitus
A Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE
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[Quote No.24686] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"This will never be a civilized country [and we will never be civilized people] until we expend more money for books [ideas and learning] than we do for chewing gum [things that taste good temporarily]." - Elbert Hubbard
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[Quote No.24688] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"For this one's dreams and that one's acts,
For all who've failed or aged beyond
The reach of teachers, here are
found the inspiration and the facts.
Even the most misfitting child
who's chanced upon the library's worth
sits with the genius of the Earth
and turns the key to the world." - Ted Hughes
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[Quote No.24696] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital." - Thomas Jefferson
(1801-1809), farmer, architect, inventor, book collector, a founding father of the United States of America.
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[Quote No.24698] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A man will turn over half a library to make one book. [Every good reference book collects the best information found by the author over years and makes it available in a form that can be consumed in a matter of hours. It literally is concentrated life, and can dramaticaly speed the learning of any subject.]" - Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784)
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[Quote No.24699] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784)
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[Quote No.24700] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at times when they need them." - Erica Jong
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[Quote No.24702] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." - Immanuel Kant
German philosopher, under-librarian at University of Konigsburg before his professorship
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[Quote No.24709] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"In teaching others we teach ourselves." - Proverb
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[Quote No.24711] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Libraries can be indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance." - Francis Keppel
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[Quote No.24714] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I did what I always do when I am in a strange place, in dreadful circumstances, without an idea in the world of what do next. I went to the library. [and asked a librarian for help with the problem.]" - Mary Kittredge
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[Quote No.24716] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth." - Louis Dearborn L'Amour
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[Quote No.24720] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"...information that is the lifeblood of our society..." - Matthew Lesko
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[Quote No.24729] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge: it is thinking that makes what we read ours." - John Locke
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[Quote No.24732] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Books minister to man in his search for the enlightenment that reveals the meaning of life." - John Adams Lowe
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[Quote No.24738] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Classification, broadly defined, is the act of organizing the universe of knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of the human mind. [and vital to make information accessable, understandable and useful.]" - Lois MaiChen
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[Quote No.24746] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak." - Michael Garrett Marino
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[Quote No.24752] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The more complex the world grows, the more necessary it is to spread the knowledge and wisdom to be found in books." - Edith Patterson Meyer
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[Quote No.24757] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge [which is information organised into practical helpful categories, allowing easier access and better understanding.]" - John Naisbitt
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[Quote No.24764] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures." - Harry A. Overstreet
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[Quote No.24768] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The library] is like a place of sacredness. If we were fools at one time, perhaps we will not be fools tomorrow, if we study." - Tom Porter
(Sakokwenionkwas - 'The One Who Wins') is the Spokesman and Chief Spiritual Leader of the Mohawk Community of Kanatsiohareke
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[Quote No.24769] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A book should be a ball of light in one's hands." - Ezra Pound
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[Quote No.24771] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[When you have a need for information one of the people you can ask is a librarian because being a] Librarian is a service occupation. [You could respectfully call them a] Gas station attendant of the mind. [because they can help you get the informational fuel you need for your journey]" - Richard Powers
Quoted from, 'The Gold Bug Variations' p.35, 1991.
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[Quote No.24773] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Teachers and] Librarians must be like Krishna! And descend into the world to combat ignorance!" - Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan
(1872-1972)
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[Quote No.24774] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Libraries give students and faculties a contact with [the thoughts and exact words - quotes of] the great minds of the past, a contact that is at the heart of all [deep] learning." - Rev. John P. Raynor
President of Marquette University from 1965 to 1990
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[Quote No.24778] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the United States (1933-1945).
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[Quote No.24780] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." - Carl Rowan
(1925- ), US columnist, journalist, diplomat
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[Quote No.24782] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"What do we as a nation [and as individuals] care about books [information, ideas and education]? How much do you think we spent altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared to what we spend on our horses? [or cars. The answer tells us volumes about our likely future success.]" - John Ruskin
(1819 – 1900), art and social critic, and author. Quoted from his book, 'Sesame and Lilies'.
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[Quote No.24785] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species." - Carl Sagan
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[Quote No.24787] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A library is thought in cold storage. [ever ready to be used]" - Herbert Louis Samuel
(1882-1941), English novelist and essayist
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