Encyclopedia Quotes - page 2

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. (Robert Anton Wilson)
Vyasa wrote the first 40,000 verses and this book was named Jaya. Afterwards other writers added more stories and it became known as Bharata. Later still more additions were made until the composition became the Mahabharata as we know it today.... We believe that Veds Vyasa was one person and that he alone composed the entire Mahabharata consisting of 100,000 verses, it is the world's largest epic in existence today and an encyclopedia of knowledge. View quote
Vyasa
Encyclopedias are like immutable cycloramas, prodigious projectors whose reels have got stuck and which show, with a kind of maniacal fixity, a landscape which, because it is condemned to be only and for all eternity what it was, will at the same time grow older more decrepit and more unnecessary. The encyclopedia purchased by Cipriano Algor's father is magnificent and as useless as a line of poetry we cannot quite remember. View quote
José Saramago
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. View quote
Karl Kraus
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are content with knowledge as a commodity, accessible only through a computerized bureaucracy, we can simply let companies provide it. But if we want to keep human knowledge open and freely available to humanity, we have to do the work to make it available that way. We have to write a free encyclopedia. View quote
Richard Stallman
Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, article Anim Zemirot. View quote
Yehuda he-Hasid
Jewish Encyclopedia, art. Judah ben Samuel he-Hasid of Regensburg, vol. VII pp356-8. View quote
Yehuda he-Hasid
The Encyclopedia presents a contemporary version of the ancient encyclopedic ideal of Aristotle, the Scholastics, Leibniz, the Encyclopedists, and Comte. View quote
Charles W. Morris
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't. View quote
Clive Thompson
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)
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. View quote
Chris Adami
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. View quote
Mayer Hawthorne
I barely trust established sources of information. I have a hard time finding [Wikipedia], an encyclopedia that anyone can alter, to be a safe way to learn about anything except how many idiots think their opinions are a suitable substitute for facts. View quote
Randy K. Milholland
That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time. View quote
Zadie Smith
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. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
They learn to speak, write, and do arithmetic. They have a phenomenal memory. If one read them the Encyclopedia Britannica they could repeat everything back in order, but they never think up anything original. They'd make fine university professors. View quote
Karel Čapek
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world. View quote
Jimmy Wales
We are a passionate community of volunteers who are trying to create a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet. View quote
Jimmy Wales
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. View quote
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)
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. View quote
Jimmy Wales
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. View quote
George R. R. Martin
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible. View quote
Gabrielle Roth
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. View quote
E. O. Wilson