(12 quotes found)
“To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.”
Hannah Arendt
“ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute”
Ambrose Bierce
“Intellectuals, which go after crowd, has never been intellectuals. The intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate themselves from the crowd.”
Ilkin Santak
“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”
“Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.”
Vanna Bonta
