Erudition Quotes

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.

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

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.

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.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.