Encyclopaedic Quotes
- A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not… — Louis Agassiz
- I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works… — Peter Greenaway
- I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago… — Eddie Izzard
- The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms of… — Friedrich Engels