James Gleick Quotes

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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.

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

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

A library is the door to many lives.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

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

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

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

A library is infinity under a roof.

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.

When in doubt, go to the library.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

The library is the temple of learning.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

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.

History teaches everything, even the future.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Libraries...house our dreams.