Quotes About Erudite

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

where to all species except the talkative have been allotted the niche and diet that become them. This, whatever micro- biology may think, is the world we really live in and that saves our sanity, who know all too well how the most erudite mind behaves in the dark without a surround it is called on to interpret, how, discarding rhythm, punctuation, metaphor, it sinks into a driveling monologue, too literal to see a joke or distinguish a penis from a pencil.

Lewis was "the best read man of his generation, one who read everything and remembered everything he read

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

La gente instruida es tan mala como la ignorante, sólo que con más argumentos.