Francis Bacon Quotes

Since human memory is short and does not suffice for a crowd of things, the authority of those who preceded our age, the divine emperors and kings, has decreed that those things were to be written down which the progress of fleeting time generally removes from the knowledge of men.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

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.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Every library is an arsenal.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

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.

With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

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

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.