Quotes About Erudition

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

I'm against ignorance.

Bugün, ç?ld?rd?ktan, sevdikten, yan?p y?k?l?p yeniden do?rulduktan, sonunda benim için yürünebilecek, tekli?inde ?a??rtacak denli öteki yollara benzeyen tek yolu bulduktan, erincin ta??r?c? garipli?inde Yehuda'y? anlad?ktan sonra her ?ey kolay geliyor. Bundan sonra güçlü?e rastlamayaca??mdan de?il, a?k?n tüketilmez gücünü bildi?im için kolay geliyor.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Participaba en aquellas discusiones con toda su erudición y al mismo tiempo con la distancia de alguien que ya no cree en la erudición como instrumento para resolver problemas

Learned fools exceed all fools

Don't you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.

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

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

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 the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

My heart is properly cultivated ... and is not left to wither under the burden of cold erudition, and my religious feelings are not deadened by theological inquiries.

Keep forgetting that y'all are freakishly informed about this stuff.

He was the very corpse of learning.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

Yet nothing would seem to dull a deft an noble intellect more swiftly, more surely than the sharp and bitter stimulant of erudition, and clearly the adolescent's melancholic and ever so conscientious thoroughness is shallow when compared with the profound resolve of the mature master to deny knowledge, disavow it, put it behind him, head high, lest it should in the slightest maim, discourage, or debase the will, action, feeling, and even passion.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

Reflexionó unos segundos, mirando a la mujer sentada frente a él y sintiendo que ella podía hacer su desierto menos parecido a un destierro. Se acordó de la otra mujer que trató unos años atrás, pero la borró de su mente con un esfuerzo deliberado. Si alguna vez encontraba otra compañera, tenía que ser una que conociera y comprendiera lo que era el saber, la erudición, y lo que todo ello exigía de una persona.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.

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.

Let me insist that erudition is important to me. It signals genuine intellectual curiosity. It accompanies an open mind and the desire to probe the ideas of others. Above all, an erudite can be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and such dissatisfaction is a wonderful shield against Platonicity, the simplifications of the five-minute manager, or the philistinism of the overspecialized scholar. Indeed, scholarship without erudition can lead to disasters.