Carl Sagan Quotes, Book Quotes, Library Quotes

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

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Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Library Quotes , Shrines Quotes

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

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Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Library Quotes

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

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Death is an ascension to a better library.

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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Library Quotes , Research Quotes

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

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Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Library Quotes , Information Quotes

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

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