Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“Faction customs dictate even idle behavior and supersede individual preference. I doubt all the Erudite want to study all the time, or… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi… — Saul Friedlander Copy Share Image
Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here," I say. "I know they're… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Ignore them. They don't know what it is to make a difficult decision." "You wouldn't have done it, I bet." "That is… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Is there any other way to Erudite headquarters?" I say. "Not that I now of," says Cara. "Unless you want to jump… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I’m about as erudite as a traffic cop.… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
![“I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really…” quote by Tilda Swinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/tilda-swinton-4434_ancient_i-ve-been-really-happy-to-be-in-that-con_2081071.jpg)
