Melvil Quotes

#1. The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher. - Melvil Dewey, 1876

John Palfrey

#2. Dewey was obsessed with efficiency. He even changed his name from "Melville" to "Melvil" as a time-saving gesture and briefly even changed his last name to "Dui.

Alex Wright

#3. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

Alexander Payne

#4. 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

#5. So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole.

Trent Dilfer

#6. I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

Carl Lewis

#7. A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

Melvil Dewey

#8. Indeed, it is We who will inherit the earth and whoever is on it, and to Us they will be returned.

Qur'an

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

Melvil Dewey

#10. Basically, if you put a fence around New York City, you'd have the world's biggest nontraveling circus.

James Patterson

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

Melvil Dewey

#12. You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

Kyra Sedgwick

#13. 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

#14. Your ability, at all times, to use the unfailing power which is yours depends upon your recognition of its presence.

Genevieve Behrend

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

Melvil Dewey