William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

It's always a treat for me to go to the British Library.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

Libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed, in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defense of their privileges.

Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.

You always have to look for something beautiful wherever you go.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

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.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.