Librarian Quote by Melvil Dewey

“Never underestimate the ability of a librarian”

— David N. Ofili

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“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

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

— Joan Bauer

“YA doesn't get librarians fired!”

— Cory Doctorow

“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

“Everybody should have a librarian.”

— Beth Fantaskey

“As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read”

— Bill Hall

“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

...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

“You are a fierce Librarian, aren’t you?”

— Garth Nix

“To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change…

— R. David Lankes