Library Quotes - page 4

It was only in the sixth century, after the Emperor Justinian proclaimed that reincarnation was no longer acceptable and would be considered a heretic doctrine, that Christians began to denounce it. The writings of earlier Christians such as Saint Jerome in the fourth century explain that reincarnation was considered an esoteric doctrine that should be understood and defended by Christian philosophy. In the second century, Origen discussed themes of reincarnation in his book titled On First Principles, which is still available in the library today. As we research different scriptures, we can still find hints of reincarnation in all of them. (Bhakti Tirtha Swami)
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's library is a sort of harem. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. View quote
Robertson Davies
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it. View quote
Bill Mollison
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth. (Anton Chekhov)
Your library is your portrait. View quote
Holbrook Jackson
He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library. View quote
Sydney Smith
I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that. View quote
Jay Gould
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. View quote
Mark Twain
But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me. View quote
Mark Twain
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. View quote
John Braine
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library. View quote
J. D. Salinger
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future. (J. C. R. Licklider)
It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display. View quote
J. C. R. Licklider
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them. View quote
Ruth Reichl
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith