Encyclopedia Quotes
74 quotes by 64 authors
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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…
— Mario Batali
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
— Yogi Berra
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these…
— Edward de Bono
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Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the…
— Gordon S. Brown
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Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.
— Mary Von Schrader Jarrell
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People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get…
— Corey Taylor
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every…
— William James
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to…
— Edward de Bono
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Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
— Charles Van Doren
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex…
— Vannevar Bush
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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating…
— Umberto Eco
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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…
— Tracy Kidder
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The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.
— Hugh Nibley
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
— Karl Kraus
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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…
— Stephen Leacock
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you…
— Terry Rossio
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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…
— Paul Desmond
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God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity.
— Jacques Ellul
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Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."
— Greg Ray
Who Wrote These Encyclopedia Quotes
64 authors contributed a total of 74 Encyclopedia Quotes, led by these top contributors: