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Category Archives: Book quotes
Priorities
“When I have money, I buy food and books. When I do not, I buy books.” – Erasmus
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Minds alive on shelves
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice, as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing; … Continue reading
Where else but in a library?
“But in a library, you can count yourself as king of infinite space. You can find a spell for the refreshment of the spirit in every story you read, and every story can be something you live. There’s one sense … Continue reading
Does your church have a library?
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is frequently taken as a warning about censorship, yet Bradbury’s chief concern was far more profound than the banning of books. On his own account, Bradbury set out to protest a culture in which people prefer … Continue reading
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Love books! – with wisdom
Around 2000 B.C. an Egyptian priest counseled his son: “Behold, nothing surpasses books. Would that I might make you love books more than your mother. Would that I might make their beauty enter before your face, for it is greater … Continue reading
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The student’s dilemma
“Learn everything. Afterward you will discover that nothing has been superfluous.” Hugh of St. Victor, 12th century
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Old friends
“The familiar faces of my books welcomed me. I threw myself into my reading chair and gazed around me with pleasure. All my old friends present—there in spirit, ready to talk with me any moment when I was in the … Continue reading
Kempis on rest
“I have sought after rest in everything; and found it nowhere except in a corner with a book.” Thomas à Kempis
A graduate student’s motto
“Never lend books; people never return them. The only books I have in my library are books I have borrowed from others.” Anatole France.
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Thoreau on reading
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!” Henry David Thoreau
Boldly explore
Originally posted at ouhos.org, the now-discontinued blog of the OU History of Science Collections. Neither this post nor any of its content should be taken as an official communication of the University of Oklahoma. Camille Flammarion, L’Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, … Continue reading
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