Learning Quote by John Micklethwait

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We…

— Vivek Wadhwa

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for…

— Li Keqiang

“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a…

— Alexandre Dumas

I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire…

— Samuel Johnson

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

— James Gleick

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

— Mitch Kapor

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

— William Hazlitt

He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.

— Michael Grant

“more books more knowledge”

— Hawa Snz Tyler Eisen

“Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.”

— Chandan Sharma

“From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have “published” at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million…

— Kevin Kelly