Encyclopedia Quote by Alberto Manguel Download Open image “The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.” — Alberto Manguel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Encyclopedia Library World
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before… — Peter Stafford Copy Share Image
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image