This document contains 12 quotes from various authors praising libraries and librarians. It highlights how librarians help people learn to navigate vast amounts of information, can find the right answers to questions, are knowledgeable teachers without classrooms, and keep the doors to learning always open through libraries. Some quotes note that librarians are underestimated masters of information who should not be angered.

1. Quotes about Libraries and
Librarians

2. • In the nonstop tsunami of global
information, librarians provide us with
floaties and teach us to swim.
• –Linton Weeks

3. • Librarians are almost always very helpful and
often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their
skills are probably very underestimated and
largely underemployed.
• –Charles Medawar
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4. • 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.
• –Laura Bush

5. • Google can bring you back 100,000 answers,
a librarian can bring you back the right one.
• –Neil Gaiman

6. • Librarians have always been among the most
thoughtful and helpful people. They are
teachers without a classroom.
• –Willard Scott

7. • My two favourite things in life are libraries
and bicycles. They both move people forward
without wasting anything.
• –Peter Golkin

8. • Librarians are the secret masters of the
world. They control information. Don’t ever
piss one off.
• –Spider Robinson

9. • A library is a place where you learn what
teachers were afraid to teach you.
• –Alan M. Dershowitz

10. • Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station
attendant of the mind.
• –Richard Powers

11. • A good library will never be too neat, or too
dusty, because somebody will always be in it,
taking books off the shelves and staying up
late reading them.
• –Lemony Snicket