Encyclopedia Quotes

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

School, Kids, Walk

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

Life, Everything, Known

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

Past, Black, Together

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

Whole, Written, Alice

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.
Robert Anton Wilson

Certitude, Belongs

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

Book, Next, Cooking

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

Him, Vision, Walk

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

Single, Person, Free

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

Person, Give, Goal

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

Time, Hate, Hard

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
Jimmy Wales

Life, Single, Person

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

Love, Music, Cool

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

Learning, Writing, Done

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
Charles Van Doren

Ideal, Radical, Radically

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