Encyclopedia Quotes

• Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

  Charles Van Doren

  World, Should, Radical

  "Know it all" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.

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• My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

  Jimmy Wales

  World, Single Person, Persons

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• 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

  Beer, People, Giving

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• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  Karl Kraus

  Vision, Saws, Literature

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

  Saul Bellow

  School, Politics, Firsts

  "The Portable Curmudgeon". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 219, 1987.

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• I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.

  Arfa Karim

  Reading, Book, Self

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

  Umberto Eco

  Creating, Giving, Understanding

  Jean-Claude Carrière, Umberto Eco (2011). “This is Not the End of the Book: A conversation curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac”, p.82, Random House

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• [My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Feet, Eight, Historical Novels

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Acorns, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• The Encyclopedia - the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment.

  Peter Prange

  Philosophy, Enlightenment, Siege

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, School, Kids

  "Yogi Berra: The greatest financial planner ever?" by Ric Edelman, www.cnbc.com. January 25, 2016.

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• Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Ignorance, Carpe Diem, Encyclopedia Britannica

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Father, Book, Sacrifice

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.

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• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Political, Foundation Of Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Education, Religion

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• The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

  Charles Dickens

  Bible, Book, Biblical

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• All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

  Grover Cleveland

  Teaching, Patriotic, Godly

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

  Mary Von Schrader Jarrell

  Father, Affectionate

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• I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in "How tall was" and I saw "How tall was Jesus," and I'm like, "Sure," and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it.

  David Sedaris

  Jesus, Crazy, Book

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• The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Progress, Compass, Timelessness

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• I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where everything should be linked.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: denisdutton.com

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• 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

  Art, Law, Culture Religion

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• God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Curiosity, Tasks

  "The Politics of God and the Politics of Man".

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