Erudition Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the…
— Colin McGinn
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Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
— William Safire
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Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
— George Iles
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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