“Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.”

“Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.”

“While growing your management skill…you set out to learn more about business. To grow yourself as a leader is a human thing. For that you must set out to learn more about humans, and yourself.”

“The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.”

“If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.”

“Do not limit yourself from whom you learn from. Everyone has something you can learn from.”

“Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.”

“To those possessed of breeding, learning, handsome looks,
Who have no wisdom, neither discipline, you need not bow.
But those who do have these two qualities,
Though lacking other virtues, you should revere.”

“But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!”

“Cloisters, ancient libraries… I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”