Patrick Ness Quotes

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

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

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.

I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

It is impossible to recognize a wrong way without knowing the right way. This means that it is no use troubling oneself how to recognize a wrong way. One must think of how to find the right way.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

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.

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

If you get lost, you can always be found.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

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.

He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.