Daniel Handler Quotes

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

To start with, look at all the books.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Every library is an arsenal.

A library is infinity under a roof.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

The Library is the heart of the University.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.