To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.     —Cicero

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.                                                                              —Norman Cousins

A library is where you go to escape the world outside and to explore the worlds within.  —Elizabeth Winthrop

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

—Jorge Luis Borges

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.                —Samuel Johnson

Libraries remind us that truth isn’t about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we’re the most religious of people, America’s innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.

—Barack Obama

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

—M.T. Anderson

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

—Barbara W. Tuchman

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

—Alexander Smith

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.       —Mark Twain

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting.

—Germaine Greer