Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything.

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

Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

When in doubt, go to the library.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

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.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

The library is the temple of learning.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

The Library is the heart of the University.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

Dear me, how I love a library.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.