Encyclopedia Quotes

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

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Jacques Ellul

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Roger Angell

It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.

— Sue Gardner

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

Your life is like an encyclopedia for stupidity...

— Spikenard Kjd

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

— Anais Nin

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

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Jimmy Wales

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Umberto Eco

There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or…

— Richard Dawkins

“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is…

— Melissa de la Cruz

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and…

— C. S. Lewis

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There…

— Charlize Theron

I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob…

— Lupe Fiasco

I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be…

— R. K. Milholland

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China…

— George R. R. Martin

I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking…

— Steve Buscemi

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped…

— Vannevar Bush

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Run a test. Give a 5-year-old a printed book and an iPad and see what happens. That 5-year-old is going to go…

— Dan Poynter

Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an…

— Nathan Shedroff

Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I…

— Lisa McMann

When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were…

— Jerome Stern

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go…

— E. B. White

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand…

— Anonymous

William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition…

— Pat Conroy

An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order.

— Mike Barfield

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

— Celph Titled

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

— LeBron James

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

— Suze Orman

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

— Mike Myers

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

— Mary Von Schrader Jarrell

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

— Peter Greenaway

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

— Friedrich Nietzsche