“ My parents provided an encyclopedia, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia, that I learned a lot from by reading it as a child. ”
- John Nash- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ”
- David Lodge- Copy
- 3K
“ If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Jarrell was not so much a father as an affectionate encyclopedia. ”
- Mary Jarrell- Copy
- 2.9K
“ An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order. ”
- Mike Barfield- Copy
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“ In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. ”
- Edward de Bono- Copy
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“ Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ To me, the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ”
- Francis Yeats Brown- Copy
- 1.3K
“ In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Oriana Fallaci- Copy
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“ Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. ”
- Fogg Brackell- Copy
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