Top 23 Encyclopaedia Quotes
#1. I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
Tariq Ali
#2. In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
Charles Lamb
#3. A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopaedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.
Emma Donoghue
#5. My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.
Percy Williams Bridgman
#6. The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as 'Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With'.
Douglas Adams
#7. The family was serious about education; after dinner, Fred was known to issue volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to his children and guests for a little light reading.
Mungo MacCallum
#8. People of Granny's age describe Wikipedia as 'an encyclopaedia, but on the net!' Encyclopaedias are what Elsa describes as 'Wikipedia, but analogue.
Fredrik Backman
#9. Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.
Walter Benjamin
#10. Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.
A. J. Jacobs
#11. Who are we, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopaedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly reshuffled and reordered in every conceivable way.
Italo Calvino
#13. It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#16. I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
Marianne Williamson
#17. I'm most inspired by people who are doing what they love in a big, loud way. And big and loud doesn't always have to be big and loud. Sometimes these people can appear as a quiet storm, but in their full expression everyone feels the impact.
Karla Cheatham Mosley
#18. My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
Pia Toscano
#21. Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
Henri Poincare
#22. Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
Truman Capote
#23. Has anyone got any bandages? I've just split my sides laughing.
Jonathan Stroud
