Top 141 Encyclopedia Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

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

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already.

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.

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

There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone who has a phobia of it.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.

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

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

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

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.

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

My job as a DJ and a producer is just to have a big encyclopedia in my head.

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.

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

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

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 would say my weakness is the political encyclopedia, but I don't think it matters that much for what Trump needs.

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

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

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

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

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

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 have been collecting recipes and information for over 20 years, but three years ago, my editor said to me, 'You're a walking encyclopedia of food, so why don't you do an encyclopedia?'

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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.

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

Today, I give my daughter what I really didn't have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.

The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.

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

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

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

Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?

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

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

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