Top 146 Encyclopedia Britannica Quotes & Sayings

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

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

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?'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from cover to cover when I was eight.

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

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

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.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

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

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.

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.

Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.

The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

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

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.

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

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 man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

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

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

Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?

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

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.'

My grandmother bought me a set of Encyclopedia Britannica's when I was little, and I remember sitting on the floor reading through these just dreaming of all the possibilities. My mind would always go toward me becoming a nurse or a teacher because, even back then, I knew I wanted to do my part to make the world a richer place.

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

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

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

Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.

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

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

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

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

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

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.)

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.

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.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

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