Horace Mann Quotes

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

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.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

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

Reading is important.

Libraries are where it all begins.

May books spread the world over!

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

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.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

A library implies an act of faith.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.