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Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. -- Stephen Leacock
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. -- Yogi Berra
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. -- Karl Kraus
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist. -- John Ankerberg
People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens. -- Jimmy Wales
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. -- Jimmy Wales
Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something. -- Chris Adami
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error. -- Lord Acton
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do. -- Sarah Kay
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. -- Henry Louis Gates
Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper." -- Greg Ray
You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff. -- Celph Titled
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment... -- Peter Prange
There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. -- Richard Dawkins
Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. -- Douglas Adams
I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house. -- Adam DeVine
Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,' and somebody else says, 'Why bother? He's probably home reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.' -- Paul Desmond
[There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep. -- Catherine Ryan Hyde
When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.) -- Neil Gaiman
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S. -- Roger Angell
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. -- Charles Van Doren
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. -- Bertrand Russell
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. -- Jimmy Wales
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. -- Anais Nin
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't. -- Clive Thompson
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species. -- E. O. Wilson
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. -- Mario Batali
There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone who has a phobia of it. -- Scott Stossel
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am. -- Oriana Fallaci
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. -- Tracy Kidder
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 have the book; probably I have a first edition. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him. -- Steve Buscemi
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. -- Matt Mullenweg
From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology. -- William James
What usually works: Simple sells. When you have to get out an encyclopedia and an Excel sheet to show somebody how much they make on a stream that comes by way of ad revenue, it gets a little complicated. -- Monte Lipman
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines. -- Russell Smith
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it. -- Richard P. Feynman
When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible. -- Aaron Swartz
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. -- Charlize Theron
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When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book. -- Douglas Brinkley
[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter -- Richard Dawkins
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 encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships. -- Mayer Hawthorne
I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships. -- George R. R. Martin
Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal. -- Jimmy Wales
It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents. -- Erma Bombeck
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head? -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information? -- Simone Elkeles
I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey. -- Suze Orman
The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge. -- Hugh Nibley
Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia. -- Mary Von Schrader Jarrell
There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly. -- LeBron James
I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis. -- Peter Greenaway
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. -- Alberto Manguel
God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity. -- Jacques Ellul
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does. -- Oliver Herford
When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia. -- Jimmy Wales
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. -- Umberto Eco
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. -- Jorge Luis Borges
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence -- Paulo Coelho
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! -- Jean Lorrain
Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance. -- Robert Kirshner
I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured. -- Jimmy Wales
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. -- Philip Jose Farmer
You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless. -- Melissa de la Cruz
Young chefs, famous chefs, home cooks, and everyone who loves food and cooking-we all depend on Larousse Gastronomique. It is the only culinary encyclopedia that is always up-to-date. -- Daniel Boulud
You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already ... -- Gwen Raverat
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia -- Tracy Kidder
When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave dÃ©jÃ vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out. -- Matthea Harvey
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way. -- Edward de Bono
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room. -- Juan Felipe Herrera

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