Library & Information Science Quotations

The investigation of the meaning of words...

2008-11-29T00:36:00.012-05:00

"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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Have you noticed that life...

2008-09-14T18:23:00.014-04:00

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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People feel no obligation to buy books

2008-07-01T00:49:00.004-04:00

"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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The Pen is the ultimate arbiter

2008-06-02T00:27:00.006-04:00

"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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Eric Ambler on the Genre

2008-02-11T15:44:00.000-05:00

“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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Knowledge dissemination

2008-01-08T23:57:00.000-05:00

“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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With pen and pencil...

2007-11-06T19:23:00.000-05:00

"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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What is even a wise book

2007-10-01T02:15:00.000-04:00

"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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Knowledge is better because

2007-09-01T18:15:00.000-04:00

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

Ali ibne Abi Talib The fourth Caliph [see more quotes]

A writer doesn't really live...

2007-08-01T00:17:00.000-04:00

“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.” -

Nelson Algren, from his 1955 interview in The Paris Review

Library Technicians - Who are they?

2007-07-02T23:35:00.000-04:00

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Back it up with Ph.D.

2007-06-23T12:05:00.000-04:00

“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)

No slightest golden rhyme he wrote...

2007-05-22T01:17:00.000-04:00

“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]

A man is known by the company ...

2007-04-08T11:02:00.000-04:00

“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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Books that have become classics

2007-03-14T16:49:00.000-04:00

“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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2007-02-19T11:01:00.000-05:00

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

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