15 Thoughtful Quotes About Reading to Use as Captions for Your Library Photos

There's something truly magical about visiting your local library and getting lost in the knowledge you can find there.

If you're like us and you love great books and a quiet moment to learn new things, chances are that you spend plenty of time at the library. Whether you just got a new library card or regularly check out a dozen books, below you can find 15 of our very favorite quotes about books and reading to use as library Instagram captions.

For when everyone joins together at the library:

"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never-failing spring in the desert."

-Andrew Carnegie

 

For when knowledge is power:

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."

-Albert Einstein

 

For showing off your shiny new library card:

"The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card."

-E. L. Doctorow

 

For basking in the quiet and knowledge of the library:

"Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds."

-Richard Armour

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For exploring the history section of the library:

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."

-Ray Bradbury

 

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For getting lost in another book:

"A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds."

-Orson Scott Card

 

For arming yourself with wisdom:

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."

-Carl T. Rowan

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For the library that brings a whole community together:

"We are The Library. It lives and breathes inside each and every one of us."

-Eve Baird, The Librarians

 

For learning more about all of your favorite things:

"Libraries house our dreams."

-Nikki Giovanni

 

For when you don't know what you'd do without the library:

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

-Henry Ward Beecher

 

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For that shot with your BSF, the librarian:

"Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom."

-Willard Scott

 

For conferring with the wise folks of the past:

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

-Rene Descartes

 

For checking out a massive stack of books that's going to keep you busy for ages:

"Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card!"

-"The Library Card Song," Arthur

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For showcasing the latest book that changed you:

"Books don't change the world, people change the world. Books only change people."

-Mario Quintana

 

For feeling fully at home at your favorite library:

"Libraries are our friends."

-Neil Gaiman

 

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