Top 6 Melvil Dewey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A library’s function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.”

— Melvil Dewey

2. “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

3. “The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”

— Melvil Dewey

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

— Melvil Dewey

5. “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

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

— Melvil Dewey

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