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Samuel Johnson
“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
tags: books, conversation, erudition, reading, writing
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Veronica Roth
“I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
tags: abnegation, amity, candor, dauntless, divergent, erudition, four, perfection, test, tobias, tris
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W.B. Yeats
“The Scholars
"Bald heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald heads
Edit and annotate the lines
That young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love’s despair
To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear.

They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end;
Wear out the carpet with their shoes
Earning respect; have no strange friend;
If they have sinned nobody knows.
Lord, what would they say
Should their Catullus walk that way?”
― W.B. Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole
tags: age, annotation, creative-process, criticism, critics, erudition, frustration, inferiority, love-poetry, perfection, poetry, scholars, writing
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Algernon Blackwood
“Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.

("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")”
― Algernon Blackwood, Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural
tags: erudition, language, words
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: acceptable, accomplishment, account, accounts, adeptness, admissible, agony, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, appreciation, apprehension, author, authors, awareness, be-acquainted-with, be-conversant-with, be-familiar-with, be-up-to-speed-on, be-versed-in, benighted, book, books, brookable, capability, capacity, cognition, cognizance, command, comprehend, comprehension, consciousness, cultivated, cultured, desolation, despair, discomfort, distress, educated, education, endurable, enlightened, entertain, entertaining, entertainment, erudite, erudition, escape, escapism, essay, essays, expertise, expertness, fiction, funny, grasp, grief, have-a-grasp-of, have-knowledge-of, have-learned, have-mastered, have-memorized, heartache, heartbreak, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, ignorance, ignorant, illiterate, inexperienced, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, joke, jokes, know, knowledgable, knowledge, knowledgeable, learned, learning, literature, man-of-letters, manageable, mastery, men-of-letters, misery, narrative, narratives, nonfiction, novel, overpowering, pain, perception, proficiency, quotations, quotes, realization, sadness, satire, scholarly, scholarship, schooling, skill, sorrow, stories, story, sufferable, suffering, supportable, sustainable, tolerable, too-much, torment, torture, unacceptable, unbearable, understand, understanding, uneducated, unendurable, unenlightened, unhappiness, uninformed, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmanageable, unread, unschooled, unsophisticated, untaught, untrained, untutored, unworldly, via-dolorosa, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, wisdom, woman-of-letters, women-of-letters, wretchedness, writer, writers
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: adult, adults, age, aphorism, aphorisms, child, children, educate, education, erudite, erudition, humor, humour, ignorance, ignorant, kid, kids, know, knowledge, knowledgeable, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, school, schools, universities, university
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“When it turns out that the greatest enemy of truth is not falsehood, but gibberish, it turns out that the greatest intellectual virtue is not deductive brilliance or factual erudition, but common sense. When it turns out that the greatest enemy of decency is not hatred, but arbitrariness, it turns out that the greatest moral virtue is not kindness or mercy, but perseverance. When it turns out that the greatest enemy of good taste is not vulgarity, but ostentation, it turns out that the greatest aesthetic virtue is not elegance or refinement, but moderation. And when it turns out that the greatest enemy of civilization is not barbarity, but infantilism, it turns out that the greatest cultural virtue is not sophistication, but integrity.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
tags: arbitrariness, civilization, common-sense, erudition, gibberish, infantilism, integrity, perseverance, sophistication, virtue
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“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.”
― John Broadbent, John Milton: Introductions
tags: authority, children, erudition, john-milton, parents, vocabulary
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“You can know a lot and still be stupid.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: erudition, judgement, judgment, knowledge, knowledgeable, newspaper, newspapers, stupid, stupidity, wisdom
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Ashim Shanker
“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.”
― Ashim Shanker
tags: creativity, epistemology, erudition, harvests, intelligence, meddlesome-weed, mind-power, poetry, wilds-of-the-intellect, wilt, wit
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Jorge Luis Borges
“As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings
tags: education, erudition, knowledge, philosophy
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
tags: awareness, books, end, enlightenment, erudition, experience, happenstance, ignorance, innocence, knowledge, learning, letters, man, nature, reality, stupidity
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Persius
“Does your knowing a thing go so far for nothing unless another person knows that you know it?”
― Persius, The Satires of Persius
tags: erudition, knowledge, learning, performativity
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Marguerite Yourcenar
“Nota dell'autrice: Lo stesso si può dire naturalmente di molte opere qui citate. Non si denuncerà mai abbastanza il fatto che libri rari, esauriti, trovabili soltanto sugli scaffali di qualche biblioteca, o articoli pubblicati su vecchi numeri di riviste di alta
cultura, per l'immensa maggioranza del pubblico sono totalmente inaccessibili.
Novantanove volte su cento, il lettore desideroso di apprendere, ma a corto di tempo e privo delle poche nozioni tecniche familiari all'erudito di professione, resta -
volente o nolente - alla mercè di opere divulgative, scelte più o meno a caso; di
queste, a loro volta, le più pregevoli, non sempre ristampate, diventano introvabili.
Quella che noi chiamiamo «la nostra cultura», è più di quel che si creda una cultura per iniziati.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
tags: culture, erudition, literature, social-inequality
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Sir Maugre’s erudition was so wide that whatever anyone said reminded him of something that had no bearing on it.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin
tags: erudition, irrelevant, knowledge
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Giannis Delimitsos
“The definition of the “ideal” philosopher, the sage? The seeker who knows a hundred reasons to be unhappy, but finds a thousand ways to be placid and content. She has the clarity of the scientist, the erudition of the teacher, the goodness of the saint.”
― Giannis Delimitsos
tags: clarity, erudition, goodness, philosopher, placid, sage
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“But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.”
― Mary Ann Evans, Middlemarch
tags: erudition
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“the Chicago Tribune said on February 8, 1937: . . . . there is entertainment in erudition.”
― Judith C. Waller, Radio: The Fifth Estate
tags: entertainment, erudition
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“Drugs are nothing compared to the ecstasy of erudition.”
― Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne
tags: drugs, ecstasy, ecstasy-of-life, erudition, knowledge
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Jacob H. Kyle
“The great artist represents in all but funds—that is, by his own word—the confessional aristocracy of an erudite if autodidactic intelligence, one that is forever imparted from the vantage of an outsider.”
― Jacob H. Kyle, The Tedium Lies
tags: art, autodidacticism, erudition, intelligence, outsider
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