Biographies Quote by Osip Mandelstam

“The book, and its offspring the periodical, which hold more knowledge than one human memory can retain, have long served as extensions to human…

— Frederick Kilgour

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“An encyclopedia is a book or set of books filled with facts from A to Z. So was Encyclopedia's head. He had read more…

— Donald J. Sobol

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books…

— Samuel Johnson

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

— Jeremy Taylor

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

— Jeffrey D Wilhelm

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

— Ezra Pound

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

“His whole mind has been given to books, and I am hardly exaggerating if I say that they are more real to him than…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

— Michael Grant

“although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if…

— John Connolly

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

— Simone Elkeles