Library & Information Science Quotations

Library & Information Science Quotations

Many Useful Quotes I Think Exist for the Benefit of Information Profession. Are there any caregivers for Words of the Wise?


Saturday, November 29, 2008

The investigation of the meaning of words...

"The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education." Antisthenes in Fragment (Greek philosopher of Athens, disciple of Socrates)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 16. See bibliographic details.

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Have you noticed that life...


Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987), French dramatist: The Rehearsal, 1950.

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 16. See bibliographic details.

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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

People feel no obligation to buy books

"People feel no obligation to buy books. It isn't their fault. Art seems cheap to them, because almost always it is cheap... People stick any kind of stuff together between covers and throw it at them." Letters of Sherwood Anderson Author: Howard Mumford (Edited by) Anderson]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 8. See bibliographic details.

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Monday, June 02, 2008

The Pen is the ultimate arbiter


"The pen is the ultimate arbiter of human actions in the sight of the Lord -- Justice Ameer Ali, in Spirit of Islam"

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 7. See bibliographic details.

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Eric Ambler on the Genre

“The thriller is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely, could be true.” - Eric Clifford Ambler (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. [wiki]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 7. See bibliographic details.

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NB. Title of this post, courtesy Julia Buckley @ Mysterious Musings

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Knowledge dissemination

“In the matter of the spread of knowledge two conditions are prerequisites. There must be formal education. There must be literacy. Without these two, knowledge cannot spread.” -
Dr. B. R. Babasheb Ambedkar, Writings and Speeches, vol. 3, p. 41

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 7. See bibliographic details
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

With pen and pencil...

"With pen and pencil we're learning to say nothing, more cleverly eveyday” -
William Allingham, Blackberries (1884).

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details

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Monday, October 01, 2007

What is even a wise book


"What is even a wise book but a blast from the lungs made visible to the eyes?” -
Hervey Allen Anthony Adverse [see more quotes]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details
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Saturday, September 01, 2007

Knowledge is better because

“Knowledge is better because it increases with distribution, while wealth decreases by that act.” -

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

A writer doesn't really live...

“I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live, he observes.” -

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details
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Monday, July 02, 2007

Library Technicians - Who are they?

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Back it up with Ph.D.


“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.” -
Nelson Algren (American Writer and Novelist. 1909-1981)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

No slightest golden rhyme he wrote...

“No slightest golden rhyme he wrote that held not something men must quote; Thus by design or chance did he drop anchors to posterity” -

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a
A HINT FROM HERRICK
[1907]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details [see also notes on this quote]

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Sunday, April 08, 2007

A man is known by the company ...


“A man is known by the company his mind keeps.” -

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Books that have become classics

“Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.” -

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903)


Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See bibliographic details

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