Quotes About Erudition

James fought the temptation to repeat "traditional chromosomal energy signature," just because it was such an awesome example of erudition gone weird, and thought hard to answer her question.

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse, censorship -- Sadie

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

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.

Devotion in faith, sweetness in voice, alacrity in alms-giving, guilelessness in relation with friends, humility for the Guru, depth in character; piety in behaviour, regard for merit, erudition in scriptural knowledge, beauty in appearance and belief in Lord Shiva (or in the welfare of all) are, O Raghav (Lord Rama), your attributes!

Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

The room in fact was as depressing from its slatternliness as from its atmosphere of erudition. 

Reality and fantasy are fused through the style and through the ease with which the narrator moves from one to the other, more often than not displaying devastatingly sardonic erudition and an underlying skepticism that keeps in check any undue indulgence.

It is my business to know things. That is my trade.

Ai fost stirv cu stirvurile lumii? atunci iti meriti primavara altor vazduhuri. Cu istoria trebuie sa lupti ?i cu trecutul sa te incrincenezi intocmai ca cu prezentul. Cine cauta o epoca din timiditate sau eruditie e domol si las. Intreaga istorie universala s-o consideri cimp de desfasurare a vitejiei tale. Si daca n-ai imboldul razboitor, transforma-o atunci in vis, ca pretextul irealitatii sa-ti scuze siestele instinctelor.

Very well. I will take you to Oxford. It might be an educational opportunity at that. You can see the college your father attended, and so might aspire to those lofty towers of erudition and academia yourself." "What does he mean?" Billy asked his brother. "He means we can go.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

One can see the professionals and intellectuals talking to their rural brethren with an amused and condescending smile. They forget that but for the toiling rural masses, all their professional training and erudition would collapse like a castle of cards.

The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope's words: For ever reading, never to be read.

For all its erudition, Cleopatra's Egypt produced no fine historian.

They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

I think you're going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.' 'For what?' I asked. Nightingale hesitated. 'Quoting, mainly,' he said. 'And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.

Now I lack your extensive erudition," said Guleed once we were out of sight of the basement, "but that struck me as being just a little bit Lord of the Rings." "Nah," I said. "She didn't call it her precious—it doesn't count if you don't call it your precious.

St. Martin's Press, whose erudition, urbanity, and love for the world of the word are an artist's inspiration.

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.

Many intellectuals and critics express a disdain for science as anything but a fix for mundane problems. They write as if the consumption of elite art is the ultimate moral good. Their methodology for seeking the truth consists not in framing hypotheses and citing evidence but in issuing pronouncements that draw on their breadth of erudition

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd.