Information Quotations
The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
Douglas EverettWhat a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.
Harold Howe,
former U.S. Commissioner of EducationAll we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.
William HarveyAnd still I am learning.
Michelangelo Buonarotti Students who score higher on "tests tend to come from schools which have more library resource staff and more books, periodicals and videos, and where the instructional role of the teacher-librarian and involvement in cooperative program planning and teaching is more prominent."
Keith Curry Lance, et. al.
The Impact of School Library Media Centers on
Academic Achievement. Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.
Carl SaganLearning is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.
Chinese Proverb Education means developing the mind, not stuffing the memory.
AnonymousPersonally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston ChurchillAn investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinNone is poor save him that lacks knowledge.
The Talmud Knowledge is knowing—or knowing where to find out.
Alvin Toffler To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund BurkeWe are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John NaisbittLearning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S.J. PerelmanSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl SaganPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates There are three basic rules about library research; unfortunately, no one remembers what they are.
The Frugal LibrarianMan can acquire knowledge but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
Spanish ProverbNot to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
African Proverb
A library should be like a pair of open arms.
Roger RosenblattIf you have knowledge, let others light their candle at it.
Margaret FullerTechnology: opening minds with a new set of keys.
Anonymous
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob BronowskiEducation is creating, not limiting and destroying.
Melvin ChapmanLearning learns but one lesson: doubt!
George Bernard ShawA teacher is an answer in search of a question.
AnonymousA library is thought in cold storage.
Herbert SamuelWhether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Henry FordEducation is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington CarverFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous HuxleyThere is no limit to intelligence... or to ignorance.
Anonymous
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoI believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.
Mae WestKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
GoetheBasic technical skills are required at 60% of jobs today.
Intel Corporation Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates
Tis true: there's magic in the web of it....
William Shakespeare, Othello Act 3, Scene 4More people should use their library.
Regis PhilbinWhat can I say? Librarians rule.
Regis PhilbinWhat's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
Stephen Jay GouldDoing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
Roger EbertThe danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
Bernard AvishaiComputers are tools, not oracles.
Jeff Logan
