(383 quotes found)
“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.”
Dr. Sara Murray Jordan
“A library is a repository of medicine for the mind”
Greek proverb
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”
Arthur Polotnik
“Some of these changes not only are things that are better for the library, but they're based on student comments. So we did this in a way to not only make it more accessible to students, but to give them a better place to study.”
Chris Cox
“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”
Mark Twain
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.”
“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”
