Charles Lamb Quotes

I spent my life in the library reading 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.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

To start with, look at all the books.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

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

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

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

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.