Quotes About Erudition

scholars—scholarship without erudition and natural curiosity can close your mind and lead to the fragmentation of disciplines.

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.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to. To sum him up, Nero believed in erudition, aesthetics, and risk taking—little else.

Double a man's erudition; you will halve his citations.

he plundered the living treasure of those shelves. There was Burton's marvelous Anatomy, his staggering erudition never smelling of the dust or of the lamp...There was the dark tremendous music of Sir Thomas Browne, and Hooker's sounding and tremendous passion made great by genius and made true by faith.

A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

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

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

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

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

Sir Maugre's erudition was so wide that whatever anyone said reminded him of something that had no bearing on it.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

Los perdedores, como los autodidactas, tienen siempre conocimientos más vastos que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar tienes que saber una cosa sola y no perder tiempo en sabértelas todas; el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores. Cuanto más sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas.

If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

Humbësit ashtu si autodidaktët kanë gjithnjë njohuri më të mëdha se fitimtarët. Nëse dëshiron të jesh fitimtar, duhet të dish vetëm një gjë e të mos humbasësh kohën për të mësuar gjithçka. Kënaqësia e erudicionit është vetëm për humbësit. Sa më shumë të dish, aq më keq mund të të shkojnë gjërat.

I perdenti, come gli autodidatti, hanno sempre conoscenze più vaste dei vincenti, se vuoi vincere devi sapere una cosa sola e non perdere tempo a saperle tutte, il piacere dell'erudizione è riservato ai perdenti.

You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.

Os perdedores, assim como os autodidatas, sempre têm conhecimentos mais vastos que os vencedores, e quem quiser vencer deverá saber uma única coisa e não perder tempo sabendo todas, o prazer da erudição é reservado aos perdedores. Quanto mais coisas uma pessoa sabe, menos coisas deram certo para ela.

Los perdedores y los autodidactas siempre saben mucho más que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar, tienes que concentrarte en un solo objetivo, y más te vale no perder el tiempo en saber más: el placer de la erudición está reservado a los perdedores

Los perdedores y los autodidactas siempre saben mucho más que los ganadores. Si quieres ganar tienes que saber una sola cosa y no perder el tiempo en sabérselas todas, el placer de la erudición está reservado para los perdedores. Cuanto más sabe uno, es que peor le han ido las cosas.