Encyclopedia Quotes

74 quotes by 64 authors

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias:… — Tom Rachman
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist. — John Ankerberg
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything… — Gabrielle Roth
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. — Richard Dawkins
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if… — Stacey D'Erasmo
When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia. — Jimmy Wales
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of… — Anais Nin
You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff. — Celph Titled
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance… — C.S. Lewis
Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an encyclopedia of game… — Nathan Shedroff
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer'… — Jimmy Wales
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole… — Charlize Theron
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh,… — Douglas Brinkley
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 encyclopedia.… — Mayer Hawthorne
People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia.… — Jimmy Wales
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 want… — Elwyn Brooks White
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin
When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say,… — Willie Nelson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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