Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

I am a public library

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

A library is the door to many lives.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

The public library is the great equaliser.

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.