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Quotations about libraries

Walter CronkiteWhatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

 - Walter Cronkite

Tags:   ignorance  libraries  price  

Ralph Waldo EmersonMeek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tags:   books  libraries  opinions  reading  views  

Arthur Conan DoyleA man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

 - Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags:   facts  knowledge  libraries  memories