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Encyclopedia Quotes
Knowledge, bound and shared.
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.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 reach.
- Personally
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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).
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago.
- Detectives
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020