Encyclopedia Quotes

Encyclopedia Quote of the day

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

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.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

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.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist.

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.

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.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

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.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

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.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

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.

A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

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.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.

God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis.

One alphabet at a time, you can write an encyclopaedia. One word at a time, you can publish an entire library.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.