Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very…

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but…

— Veronica Roth

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here," I say. "I know they're hidden, but…

— Veronica Roth

To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly like nutmeg,…

— Frederick Beuchner

But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can…

— Veronica Roth

If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a…

— Ephrem the Syrian

Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from…

— Daniel Silva

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so…

— Anne Lamott

Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to…

— Hannah Arendt

“When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness…

— Veronica Roth