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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
- Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir, 1838 - 1914

A mediocre teacher tells. The good explains. The superior demonstrates but a great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward, 1921 – 1994

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- Barbara Tuchman

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
- Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900

All Mankind has done, thought, gained or been, it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. They are the choicest possessions of men.
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
- Tryon Edwards

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
- Charles Robert Darwin – 1809 – 1882

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
- Francis Keppel

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
- Vartan Gregorian

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
- Les Brown

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882