Erudition Quotes

Erudition Quote of the day

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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.

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

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, but not remain as pure.

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 profound.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.