Melvil Dewey Quotes

• Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

  Melvil Dewey

  Book, Inspiration, Giving

  "Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship".

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• Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

  Melvil Dewey

  Reading, Electricity, Steam

  Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”

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• To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

  Melvil Dewey

  Strong, Heart, Greatness

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• 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 is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

  Melvil Dewey

  Teacher, Book, School

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• Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

  Melvil Dewey

  Pain, Tasks, Fortitude

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Melvil Dewey

  Librarian, Triumphant, Militancy

  "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.

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• The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

  Melvil Dewey

  Conflict, Worst, Eternal

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