Erudition Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. — Ambrose Bierce
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. — Walter Savage Landor
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we… — Ihab Hassan
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the… — Colin McGinn
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. — William Safire
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. — George Iles
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the… — Edith Hall
Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and… — Carl E. Olson
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for… — Adam Zagajewski
Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know… — Barbara Damrosch
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject… — William James
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for… — Frederick Reines
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute,… — Marcel Proust
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your… — Bodhidharma
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton

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