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Encyclopedia Quotes

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These encyclopedia quotes recall a time when books, teachers, and encyclopedias were the main routes to knowledge, and one writer even preferring Alice in Wonderland to the full Encyclopedia Britannica.

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...

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

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...

Quotes by Vivek Wadhwa

It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.

Quotes by Sue Gardner

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

Quotes by Stephen Leacock

Art Quotes

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.

Quotes by Scott Stossel

I am a movie buff - I even claim I am a Hindi film encyclopedia post 1988(only because that was the year I was born in... haha).

Quotes by Saqib Saleem

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.

Quotes by Russell Smith

I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.

Quotes by Robert Christgau

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring...

Quotes by Mark Waid

Book Quotes

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

Quotes by Logan Browning

I swear to you, any question you can have about moves, psychology, gimmicks, the history of Pro Wrestling, he knows. Lance Storm is an encyclopedia of wrestling knowledge.

Quotes by Laurel Van Ness

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

Quotes by Karl Kraus

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

Quotes by 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.

Quotes by Jimmy Wales

Everything Quotes

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.

Quotes by Jimmy Wales

I have been collecting recipes and information for over 20 years, but three years ago, my editor said to me, 'You're a walking encyclopedia of food, so why don't you do an encyclopedia?'

Quotes by Gil Marks

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.

Quotes by E. O. Wilson

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...

Quotes by Douglas Brinkley

Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.

Quotes by Devendra Banhart

Free Quotes

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

Quotes by Demetrious Johnson

Frequently Asked Questions

What are encyclopedia quotes about?
These quotes reflect on books and reference works as sources of knowledge, from an era when encyclopedias were a luxury item to jokes about the odd habit of writing encyclopedia entries.
Why do people search for encyclopedia quotes?
Readers look for encyclopedia quotes to reflect on how access to knowledge has changed over generations, or simply to enjoy a witty line about reference books and learning.
What does the quote about a childhood without wide knowledge access mean?
It describes a generation limited to books, teachers, parents, and friends as sources of knowledge, with an encyclopedia counted as a genuine luxury rather than a household staple.
Is there a strange or surreal quote here?
Yes, one entry describes a vision of an encyclopedia walking up to a polymath and opening him up, a strange image about knowledge confronting a person who claims to hold a lot of it.
Does this collection compare fiction to encyclopedic writing?
One quote states a preference for having written Alice in Wonderland over the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, favoring imaginative fiction over exhaustive reference work. Related reading sits in the Book quotes.

A stranger entry imagines an encyclopedia confronting a polymath, a playful jab at how much any single mind can actually hold. Readers who enjoy this angle may like the Book quotes as well.