Encyclopedia Quote by Charles Van Doren Download Open image “Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.” — Charles Van Doren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Encyclopedia Radical Should World
I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
If I seem like a radical it's because I have seen things that others have not. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. — Albert Maltz Copy Share Image
I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yet once we are done nodding earnestly at Whitehead and Latour, what do we do? We return to our libraries and our word processors.… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything — Thomas Nixon Carver Copy Share Image
The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“By “radical” I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched… — Matthew Stewart Copy Share Image
Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people. — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“You have not grasped a complex unity if all you know about it is how it is one. You must also know how it… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness.… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements—all the way from ingenious… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“we can learn only from our “betters.” We must know who they are and how to learn from them.” — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.” — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before… — Peter Stafford Copy Share Image
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
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… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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