Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Melvil Dewey

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American inventor Melvil Dewey.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey was an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief librarian at Columbia University. He was also a founding member of the American Library Association but resigned in 1905, due to allegations of sexual harassment, racism, and antisemitism.

American - Inventor | December 10, 1851 - December 26, 1931

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

Melvil Dewey

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

Melvil Dewey

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

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

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

Melvil Dewey

Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

Melvil Dewey

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

Melvil Dewey

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Melvil Dewey

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