Information Overload and Gandhi's Outlook

"It is well for us to realize that the great increase in knowledge in the world does not necessarily make us wiser or better. We must know how to use that knowledge properly before we rush ahead in our powerful car. We must have some idea of what the aim and object of life should be." Mohandas Gandhi

This quote also appears at theovercomer's Journal @ DailyStrength.org

Quoted from Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) pp. 149-150. Available @ Amazon.com

Preachers as Disseminators...

Those who preach and study, read or copy the Dharmaparyaya, are destined for supreme enlightenment, have always to be honoured, and are always helped by Buddha. in The sacred books of the east, 21, xxx, 213-36," 320-7;
Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 15. See Amazon.com.

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 Amazon.com..

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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 Amazon.com.

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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 Amazon.com.

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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 Amazon.com.

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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 Amazon.com.

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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 Amazon.com.

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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 Amazon.com.

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See also:

• The Future of Electronic Paper
• Digital pens more trouble than they're worth
  

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 Amazon.com.

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Knowledge is better because

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

Ali ibne Abi Talib The fourth Caliph [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 Amazon.com.

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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.” -

Nelson Algren, from his 1955 interview in The Paris Review

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 Amazon.com.

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Library Technicians - Who are they?

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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 Amazon.com.

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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 Amazon.com. [see also notes on this quote]

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