Library Quotations Quotes

“No matter how beautifully you decorate a house, if there is no library in the house, then it cannot be a beautiful house!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The only way to expand a small room extraordinarily without breaking its walls is to put a library in that room!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you ask what is the staircase that ascends into the vastness of the universe, I would say it is a library, because the only thing that will build a staircase in a place without staircase is knowledge!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You can bring more than all the information in a library to a person's home via the internet, but you can never bring that mysterious atmosphere of libraries, that interesting smell which takes you to the past!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The power of libraries is that they bring you together not only with the books you are looking for, but also with the books you did not even know existed!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But the library was different: it was a place, a dynamic social setting where groups gathered, where people were put into relation with others. A space an individual could physically explore on his own.”
― Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

“The best library is the one that fascinates you with its atmosphere and makes you immediately choose a book and start reading, even though you have no desire to read a book!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No getting lost can make you open to every possibility as much as getting lost in a library, because a book you find by chance after getting lost can offer you a possibility that you may never encounter in your life and start you into a very different life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan