If you are searching for some of the best library quotes, sayings, and proverbs, you’re in the right place! 📚
Below, you will find a wide range of inspirational, thought-provoking, and appreciative quotes about libraries that are great for inspiration and cozy vibes.
Side note: If I forget to add any must have quotes, if you have created your own, please comment below as I will be sure to include it in future updates! 😀
73+ Inspiring Library Quotes & Sayings
1. “A good library is a great kingdom.” – Magliabecchi
2. “The world is quiet here.” – Lemony Snicket
3. “My library is an archive of longings.” – Susan Sontag
4.. “When in doubt go to the library.” – J. K. Rowling
5. “Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
6. “Libraries change lives for the better.” – Sidney Sheldon
7. “A great library contains the diary of the human race.” – George Dawson
8. “Librarians are tour-guides for all of the knowledge.” – Patrick Ness
9. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
10. “The richest minds need not large libraries.” – Amos Bronson Alcott
11. “Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be.” – Unknown
12. “If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.” – Cicero
13. “I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.” – Virginia Woolf
14. “Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library.” – Walter Savage Landor
15. “God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.” – Joan Bauer
16. “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” – Ray Bradbury
17. “I wanted a library like this, a cave of words that I’d made myself.” – Maggie Stiefvater
18. “An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.” – Stephen Fry
19. “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” – Shelby Foote
20. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” – Henry Ward Beecher
21. “A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.” – Pat Conroy
22. “Quality cataloging takes time and money. Without a good catalog, there is no library.” – Colin Bitter
23. “The most important asset of any library goes home at night – the library staff.” – Timothy Healy
24. “Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.” – Sarah J. Maas
25. “When you absolutely positively have to know, ask a librarian.” – American Library Association
26. “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein
27. “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.” – Neil Gaiman
28. “Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.” – Lauren Ward
29. “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J. K. Rowling
30. “The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” – T.S. Eliot
31. “A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.” – Alan M. Dershowitz
32. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite
33. “Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague.” – Eleanor Crumblehulme
34. “A Library is proof that you can never have too much of a good thing.” – Proverb
35. “Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.” – George Bancroft
36. “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” – Frank Zappa
37. “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein
38. “I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.” – Laura Bush
39. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” – Gorge Luis Borges
40. “Who doesn’t love a library? It is a place you can go to any town and discover the world.” – Pat MacEnulty
41. “Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.” – Robin Sharma
42. “To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books.” – Carlos Maria Dominguez
43. “Cutting libraries in a recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague.” – Eleanor Crumblehulme
44. “The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy, and community.” – Paula Poundstone
45. “I don’t have to look far to find treasures. I discover them every time I visit a library.” – Michael Embry
46. “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite
47. “A library is a foundation and a fountain of knowledge. It is a friend of sustainable development.” – Machele Kafumu Maisa
48. “Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.” – R. David Lankes
49. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” – Anne Herbert
50. “A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.” – Catherynne M. Valente
51. “A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.” – Norman Cousins
52. “Library Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds.” – Richard Armour
53. “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people it is a never-failing spring in the desert.” – Andrew Carnegie
54. “The main function of a library is the collection and preservation of knowledge for its dissemination to all.” – R. S. Khochar
55. “I’ve always had a finely tuned ear for a library’s accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.” – Martha Cooley
56. “A library is a miracle. A place where you can learn just about anything, for free. A place where your mind can come alive.” – Josh Hanagarne
57. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
58. “Libraries are not a destination. They are transportation. The Grand Central station of every great city and town.” – Unknown
59. “Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
60. “Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.” – Willard Scott
61. “In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.” – Linton Weeks
62. “You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!.” – Russell T. Davis
63. “It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.” – Jarrett J. Krosoczka
64. “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” – Lemony Snicket
65. “To ask why we need libraries at all when there is so much information available elsewhere is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.” – Jon Bing
66. “Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.” – Sidney Sheldon
67. “A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.” – Daniel Handler
68. “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy-where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” – Carla Hayden
69. “Libraries provide a quiet and tranquil environment. There can be no better place to get some peace and quiet from the potentially upsetting collapse of civilization taking place on the other side of the door.” – Sally Bittiner
70. “Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.” – Virginia Woolf
Final Thoughts
That’s all folks! That wraps up my list of inspirational, motivational, and appreciate library quotes! I personally love reading these as it inspires me to pick up a book and visit my local library.
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