Encyclopedia Quotes

74 quotes by 64 authors

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
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. — Yogi Berra
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
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
Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia. — Mary Von Schrader Jarrell
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
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
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
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. — Charles Van Doren
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
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
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
The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge. — Hugh Nibley
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. — Karl Kraus
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
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia. — Robert Anton Wilson
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
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
God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity. — Jacques Ellul
Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper." — Greg Ray

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