Librarian Quotes

263 Librarian quotes by 196 unique authors

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their… — Charles Lamb
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use… — Peter Drucker
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one… — Lawrence Clark Powell
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that… — Irving Stone
The richest minds need not large libraries. — Amos Bronson Alcott
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine. — Stephen King
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library… — Melvil Dewey
It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values. — Jim Hightower
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my… — Isaac Asimov
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly… — Kurt Vonnegut
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the… — Patricia Briggs
Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise. — Tom Upton
At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk. — Juliana Hatfield
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The… — Edward de Bono
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected… — Margaret Mahy
My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian. — Paulina Porizkova
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. — Peter Shaffer
I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card… — James Mangold
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. — Melvil Dewey

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