(72 quotes found)
“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.”
Doris Lessing
“One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.”
Chanakya
“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”
Charles de Lint
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
“'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.”
Catherine Maria Fanshawe
“...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.”
Albert Einstein
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“[To be sure, Motherboard never left the confines of the SOE stables after Simpson couched the project, citing economic reasons. Moreover,] the end product was a much-larger-scale endeavor, ... It had nothing to do with editorial content.”
Lisa Simpson
“Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective”
Bertrand Russell
