I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. — Karl Kraus
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. — Jorge Luis Borges
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson
The store of collective human knowledge is diluted by 50% each year. — Mo Gawdat
As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue. — Zadie Smith
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Henry Ward Beecher
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. — Richard Bach
Never memorize something that you can look up. — Albert Einstein
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. — Neil Gaiman
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book. — Jamaica Kincaid
Short Encyclopedia Quotes
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. — Bertrand Russell
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. — Yogi Berra
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. — Jimmy Wales
The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge. — Hugh Nibley
I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias. — Arfa Karim
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. — Charles Van Doren
You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff. — Celph Titled
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. — Charles Dickens
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. — Stephen Leacock
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Encyclopedia Britannica Quotes
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist. — John Ankerberg
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. — Richard Dawkins
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.' — Paul Desmond
When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.) — Neil Gaiman
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible. — Gabrielle Roth
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship. — Grover Cleveland
The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever. — Umberto Eco
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am. — Oriana Fallaci
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches. — Saul Bellow
Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date. — Daniel Boulud
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. — Jimmy Wales
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way. — Edward De Bono
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer
Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. — Vannevar Bush
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. — Jimmy Wales
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. — Charlize Theron
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. — Mario Batali
From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology. — William James
Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it. — N.D. Wilson
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
[Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books] — Daniel J. Boorstin
It's a big mistake when encyclopedias say "loyal" - this dog, this breed has this ability to be loyal, to be a one person dog. I don't agree with that. I think all dogs are honest, all dogs have integrity, all dogs are loyal and they're all capable of loving you. It doesn't come from the breed. It comes from the dog. — Cesar Millan
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. — Edward De Bono
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does. — Oliver Herford
That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king. — Bruce Springsteen
What usually works: Simple sells. When you have to get out an encyclopedia and an Excel sheet to show somebody how much they make on a stream that comes by way of ad revenue, it gets a little complicated. — Monte Lipman
When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal. — Kim Stanley Robinson
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. — Alberto Manguel
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. — C. S. Lewis
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