Ancient Quote by Rick Famuyiwa

I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I…

— Anonymous

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

— Alberto Manguel

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

— Lewis Buzbee

I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on the cover,…

— Keith Hernandez

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

— Pat Conroy

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

— Jimmy Wales

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it,…

— Anonymous

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

— Anonymous

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend…

— Richard Dawkins

I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

— Tara Westover