Top 35 Library Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

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2. “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

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3. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

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4. “Libraries really are the gates to the future.”

— Neil Gaiman

5. “I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.”

— Neil Gaiman

6. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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7. “I cannot live without books.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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8. “My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

— Malcolm X

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9. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

— Dr. Seuss

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10. “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

— Mark Twain

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11. “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

— Roald Dahl

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12. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”

— Neil Gaiman

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13. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

— Joseph Addison

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14. “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”

— Neil Gaiman

15. “Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.”

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

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17. “Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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18. “Libraries are our friends.”

— Neil Gaiman

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19. “Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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20. “Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

— Sarah J. Maas

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21. “When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

— Mark Twain

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22. “Your library is your paradise.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

23. “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

— William Feather

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24. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

25. “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.”

— Lemony Snicket

26. “When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”

— Joan Bauer

27. “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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28. “Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.”

— Patrick Ness

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29. “When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.”

— Jane Austen

30. “The Library is the heart of the University.”

— Charles William Eliot

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31. “They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.”

— Lemony Snicket

32. “My books are friends that never fail me.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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33. “There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”

— Ray Bradbury

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34. “The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

35. “The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.”

— Rita Dove