Best knowledge & library Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.”

World Should Doe Knowledge Library Profit

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”

Ifs Wells May Values Knowledge Amount Library Disorder Useful Knowledge

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”

Knowledge Tree Towns Library Rivals Libraries And Librarians Diabolical Evergreens

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.”

Knows Should Mean Book Real Knowledge Rate Library Financial Valuable Estates Mortgage Unread Books Real Estate Market Mortgage Rate

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”

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Author:Russell T Davies

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

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Author:John Naisbitt

“The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal audience of fellow composers. His message is not devoid of universality but its universality is disembodied and anonymous. While the artist's communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modified, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture. The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and also no stronger link with the world than his work.”

“My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.”

“A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.”

Way Knowledge Library Scholar

Book:Consciousness Explained

Source: Consciousness Explained

“At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.”

“At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.”

Knows Looks Important Problem Science Given Hours Knowledge Tomorrow Solutions Library Instant Surgeons

Author:John W. Kirklin

“Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.”

Ifs Men Science Dies Knowledge Medicine Library Burned Extinction

Author:Mark Plotkin

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

Reading Brain Knowledge Our Lives Civilization Library

Author:Ray Bradbury

“It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.”

Doe Book Fighting Reading Knowledge Battle Library Librarian

Author:Sutton E. Griggs

“A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.”

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Author:Shmuel Niger

“He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.”

Knows Inspirational Found Education Knowledge Wise Written Source Library

Author:Archibald Alexander Hodge

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