"Because the world is radically new, the ideal……" — Charles Van Doren
"Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too."
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12 Quotes by Charles Van Doren
Charles Van Doren has 12 quotes on this site.
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I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching…
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Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far…
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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe…
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My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.
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I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.
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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
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I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.
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I never wanted to see another quiz show.
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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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More Encyclopedia Quotes
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one of 74 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my…
— 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…
— 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…
— Unknown Author
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Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.
— Unknown Author
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People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent…
— 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.…
— 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…
— Edward de Bono
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to…
— 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…
— 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…
— Tracy Kidder
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The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.
— Hugh Nibley
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