"Writing books is better than planting vines: the latter serves only the needs of the stomach, whereas the former feeds the soul."
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
"The richest minds need not large libraries." Amos Bronson Alcott
"Table Talk" Learning Books (1877)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
One must be rich in thought and character owe nothing to books, though propension is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more -- book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned. Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets.
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable; and like these are approached with difference, not sought too familiarly nor too often, having the precedence only when friens tire.” Amos Bronson Alcott. 'Books,' Laurel Leaves (1876)
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offence. Amos Bronson Alcott,
(Concord Days 1872)
“The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.” John Aiken, Letters from a father to his son (1796)
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“Writing is the loneliest job in the world.” Bill Adler (Inside publishing, 1982)
Punch Line: And, I did accomplish it (albiet, not in solitude and loneliness; rather it was done in a synchronous mode, with a real-time zeal to capture and catalog all the relevant sources in cyberspace). See my new book: Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives, by Mohamed Taher, Scarecrow Press, 2006.
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"When you are published be prepared for the shock of not finding your book in every bookstore." Bill Adler (Inside publishing, 1982)
Preparedness stuff:
”Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another” Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672 - 1719) [Guardian, no. 111, Letter of Alexander to Aristotle]
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.
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”And it is no wonder if a great deal of Knowledge, which is not capable of making a man wise, has a natural tendency to make him vain and arrogant.”
Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672 - 1719) [The Spectator June 30, 1711]
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.
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A book that I enjoy is: Knowledge & Flow of Information, by DRETSKE. Blackwell Publishers (1981)
"An attempt to develop a theory of knowledge and a philosophy of mind using ideas derived from the mathematical theory of communication developed by Claude Shannon. Information is seen as an objective commodity defined by the dependency relations between distinct events. Knowledge is then analyzed as information caused belief. Perception is the delivery of information caused belief. Perception is the delivery of information in analog form (experience) for conceptual utilization by cognitive mechanisms. The final chapters attempt to develop a theory of meaning (or belief content) by viewing meaning as a certain kind of information-carrying role. "
Pt. I Information: Ch. 1 Communication Theory; Ch. 2 Communication and Information; Ch. 3 A Semantic Theory of Information
Pt. II Knowledge and Perception: Ch. 4 Knowledge; Ch. 5 The Communication Channel; Ch. 6 Sensation and Perception;
Pt. III Meaning and Belief: Ch. 7 Coding and Content; Ch. 8 The Structure of Belief;
Ch. 9 Concepts and Meaning;
”Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
Joseph Addison (English Essayist, Poet, Dramatist and Statesman, 1672 - 1719) [The Spectator 10 Sept., 1711]
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.
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Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston 1852, p. 20
...access should be had to a City Library, the Trustees can only say, that they would place no restrictions on its use, except such as the nature of individual books, or their safety may demand; regarding it as a great matter to carry as many of them as possible into the home of the young; into poor families; into cheap boarding houses; in short, wherever they will be most likely to affect life and raise personal character and condition.
See also: Libraries Reach Out, Online. By TIM GNATEK, New York Times December 9, 2004
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Joseph Addison:
When knowledge, instead of being bound up in books, and kept in libraries and retirements, is thus obtruded upon the publick; when it is canvassed in every assembly, and exposed upon every table, I cannot forbear reflecting upon that passage in the proverbs, 'Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth her voice in the streets.'
[Source: The Spctator, no. 124]
quoted in A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 4. See Amazon.com.
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Much more on Knowledge sharing from Patrick's Blog
“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin (Russian Prime Minister)
quoted in A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 14. See Amazon.com.
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Joseph Addison: A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the connected beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation
[Source: The Spctator, no. 291, 1712]
quoted in A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 3. See Amazon.com.
