Quotes About Learning

There are so many things in a library, so many books and so much stuff, that I sometimes wondered if any one single person could possibly know what all of it is. I preferred thinking that no one does - I liked the idea that the library is more expansive and grand than one single mind, and that it requires many people together to form a complete index of its bounty.

People wanted so much from the library. They wanted it to solve things for them. They wanted the library to fix them and teach them how to fix their lives.

they also believed that you read a book for the experience of reading it. You didn't read it in order to have an object that had to be housed and looked after forever, a memento of the purpose for which it was obtained. The reading of the book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs.

we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family.

By that time, the library was awe-inspiring and a little scary. People had begun to believe it was a living thing—an enormous, infinite communal brain containing all the existing knowledge in the entire world, with the potential for the sort of independent intelligence we now fear in supercomputers.

I grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way.

In truth, a library is as much a portal as it is a place.

grew up in libraries

Szabo frequently preaches the gospel of the library as the people's university.

checkout machine

air force bases, where libraries are revered.

It seems simple to define what a library is—namely, it is a storeroom of books.

a library is an intricate machine, a contraption of whirring gears.

The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.

She cocked her head at me. "You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?

The reading of a book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs.

them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.

wanted librarians to simply adore the act of reading for its own sake, and perhaps, as a collateral benefit, they could inspire their patrons to read with a similarly insatiable appetite.

Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

people of the book.

Encyclopedias?" he asked George. "So damn heavy.

books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without.

questions continued to come. I wrote them down. And one by one, Duncan and I answered them, together. Some questions took days to answer. Some took a moment. Others had no answer, and that in itself was important. In every case, we learned something about our relationship and each other. We were delighted, appalled, infuriated and/or mystified by each other's answers.

The real challenge is that we grow. Partner choice is a self-development journey, driving us to learn more about ourselves, about other people, about life and the way we want to live it. Take all that on board and we start to realize just how big an adventure choosing a partner is.