Jules Verne Quotes

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

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.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

Without the library, I would have been lost.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

Knowledge is capital.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don't know by what you do.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

It's amazing what you can find out if you just call an expert, you know?

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all and everything fed my dreams. Then as an adult whenever I would go on location the first thing we would do as a family is sign up at the closest library. Not only would we find books, but what was happening in that town, because the library is the head of the community.

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

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

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

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

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

You have to bring books to explain your work.

To start with, look at all the books.