Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles Copy Share Image
“the Chicago Tribune said on February 8, 1937: . . . . there is entertainment in erudition.” — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse,… — Alice Kimberly Copy Share Image
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a… — Mary E. Hunt Copy Share Image
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and… — Carl E. Olson Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In… — William James Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“James fought the temptation to repeat “traditional chromosomal energy signature,” just because it was such an awesome example of erudition gone weird,… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.” — John Broadbent Copy Share Image
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