Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

To start with, look at all the books.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

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 guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

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.

Books do furnish a room.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

A library implies an act of faith.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Read in order to live.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

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

The proper study of mankind is books.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

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.

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.