Quotes About Erudite

It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.

Today in the Trump era, many conservatives who believe Trump has denigrated all political discourse and destroyed any meaning of conservatism—which, of course, he has—look back longingly at the National Review as being everything that Trump World is not: clever, erudite, committed to principle.

I'm an educated individual.

I'm an intellectual.

I felt more comfortable in TV than in the film world where the players were more erudite and intellectual.

Why, Oppenheimer knows about everything. He can talk to you about anything you bring up. Well, not exactly. I guess there are a few things he doesn't know about. He doesn't know anything about sports.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

Moderns fancy themselves as more intellectually sophisticated than ancient man, yet they are often ignorant of the fact that their notions of existential angst and individual identity that they think is the erudite offerings of modern existentialist philosophers like Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Nietzsche, were wrestled with millennia before the chaotic narcissistic spasm of the modern period.

There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one .

The man who knew an encyclopedia by heart would be in grave danger of incurring the title idiot savant—"learned fool.

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the

sought out his company because he was one of the most erudite Indian writers I had met. He also had a phenomenal memory.

What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

Nothing is as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated on.

I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

You talk like a book.

How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I'm about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what's so two-headed peculiar about that?

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

What I do have, however, is a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and I propose that it is these specs, combined with a flair for appropriating snippets from erudite sources too deep for me to grasp but which can be utilized in my work to give the deceptive impression of knowing more than I do that keeps this fairy tale afloat.

This coupling of erudite (scholarly) knowledges and embodied (popular) knowledge is what Foucault refers to as genealogy.

I was always very studious and intelligent.