Ability Quote by David N. Ofili

“Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.”

— Charles Medawar

“People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. They bring order to…

— Erica Olsen

“We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.”

— Herbert S. White

“Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book…

— Rebecca Makkai

“Problem with being a librarian is there's some lessons you just can't learn from books.”

— Jay Kristoff

“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.”

— Willard Scott

“We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to…

— Seth Godin

“This is why it’s perilous to ignore a librarian.”

— Jeffe Kennedy

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

— Melvil Dewey

“Librarians are serious people, seldom given to jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of…

— Lynn Austin

“Everybody should have a librarian.”

— Beth Fantaskey

“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of…

— Walter Mosley