Best Erudite Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.”

“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.”

“No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.”

“The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite”

Knowledge Four Think Divergent Tris Erudite Veronica Roth Allegiant Faction Insurent

Book:Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Source: Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other fractions suffer from the same problem”

Divergent Dauntless Erudite Veronica Roth Tris Prior Beatrice Prior Chapter 16 Page 206 Page 207 Dauntless Manifesto Erudite Faction Manifesto

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”

“You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without pause.' 'There are words I stare at,' Zach says. 'Strange. Every time. Misled, that's one. I see mizzled. And unshed. I read unched.' 'Me too! But that's a different thing—except, now you mention it, it's odd about unshed, that it's only for tears. Mostly. Hardly ever blood, for instance, you don't see unshed blood. Unched. Not really.' 'Not in my case anyway. Mine sheds all over the joint! I'm a bleeder all right.”

Reading Blood Words Witty Dialogue Boxing Wordplay Be My Wolff Emma Richler Erudite Boxer Word Meanings Misread Not Quite Right Not Right

Book:Be My Wolff

Source: Be My Wolff

“Zachariah, Zachariah,' whispers Rachel, casting a practised eye over the back of his head and down the length of him, from the shoulder blades where his wings once grew, epochs ago, in some other guise: angel—guardian, avenging—or great vagrant bird—Daurian Jackdaw, Chimney Swift, Pacific Loon!”

Body Angel Wings Description Birds Be My Wolff Emma Richler Erudite Fanciful Shoulder Blades

Book:Be My Wolff

Source: Be My Wolff

“I should be a fool to take offence at any want of confidence”

Genuine Sincerity Discretion Erudite Agreeable

Book:The Island of Doctor Moreau

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau

“I don't know, I guess I agree with them. That if everyone would just keep learning about the world around them, they would have far fewer problems.”

Knowledge Matthew Erudite Divergent Series Veronica Roth Allegiant Page 218

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.”

Mind Artist Talent Genius Gifted Exceptional Brilliance Expert Erudite Skilled

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“What was it our Mam used to say? If wishes were horses-' 'beggars would ride.”

Erudite Pithy Homespun Wisdom

Book:Changing Patterns

Source: Changing Patterns

“... Bookstore, which smelled the way only a new book from England does when you open it for the first time, faintly like nutmeg, dry, erudite.”

Erudite Bookstore Nutmeg

Author:Frederick Beuchner

“Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.”

Matter Use Eye Courses Wise Seeing College Depends What Matters Erudite

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.”

Thinking Knows Trying Character Problem Stuff Witty Erudite

Author:Anne Lamott

“When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.”

Kind Mean Art Important Artist Literature Interest Gone Curiosity Idolatry What's Important Erudite

Book:Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Source: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

“Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]”

Learning Fairs Belle Erudite

Author:Jacopo Sannazaro

“Susannah Heschel's The Aryan Jesus is a brilliant and erudite investigation of the convergence between major trends in German Protestantism and Nazi racial anti-Semitism. By concentrating on the history of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life, Heschel describes in forceful detail the Nazification of all aspects of Protestant theology, including the Aryanization of Jesus himself. This is a highly original and important contribution to our understanding of the Third Reich.”

“I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion.”

Men World Different Economic Economics Conclusion Erudite Exact Sciences

Author:Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

“Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones”

Vision Investing Strikes Optimistic Pessimistic Erudite

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“The pious and learned Jesuit, Suarez, Justus Lipsius, a devout and erudite theologian of Louvain, and many others have proved incontestably that devotion to our Blessed Lady is necessary to attain salvation.”

Christian Holy Blessed Salvation Devotion Theologian Pious Erudite Jesuit Holy Mary Suarez

Book:True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

Source: True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

“A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Sound Realizing Consciousness Practice Huge Wall Fool What If Sophisticated Foolishness Wrong Things Self Consciousness Erudite Beginning Writers

Author:Richard Bach

“As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decision. Am I truly less talented, less audacious, less erudite, less brave than my more quote-unquote literary colleagues?”

Happens Decision Brave Marketing Colleagues Audacious Erudite

Author:Jillian Medoff

“With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.”

Voice Watches Mouths Eight Publishing Immature Erudite Snicket

Author:Daniel Handler

“If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.”

Ifs Knows Persons Fascinating Erudite

Author:Daniel Handler

“I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.”

Trying Believe Song Written Clever Temptation Pretentious Erudite

Author:Peter Blegvad

“I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'”

People Should Firsts Young Language Behinds Written Understood Professors Ever After Jargon Erudite

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.”

Ifs Knows Turns Stuff Brain Teacher Objects Youth Models Absolutes Tyrants Originality Apes Pupils Persecuted Erudite No Sympathy

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.”

Ifs Way Art Facts Artist Study Terrible Paint Feds Great Art Rubbish Fed Up Erudite

Author:Brian Froud

“Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you're all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.”

People Years Wells Mean Turns Courses Dark Rooms Stupid Smart Productions Educated Schedules Grind Smart People Swearing Well Educated Erudite

Author:Maria Semple

“If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul.”

Ifs Heart Soul Joy Reading Healing Wise Flower Reader Strikes Brilliant Your Soul Demon Honey Bees Ardent Erudite Haughtiness

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.”

Firsts Shows Television Appetite Mainstream Affirmation Nominations Talk Shows Emmys Erudite

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really ancient, about how to imagine living beyond any physical bounds, which we're on the verge of now.”

Thinking Knows Philosophy Term Religious Imagine Modern Months Conversation Bounds Ancient Thinker Really Happy Verge Chewing Religious Philosophy Erudite

Author:Tilda Swinton

“I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.”

Knows Space Intellectual Who I Am Idiot Curse Swear Erudite

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.”

Way Today Deals Cities Growing Up Growing Areas Jew Educated Glorious Sophisticated Anti Semitism Montreal Erudite

Author:William Shatner

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

Four Impossible Becoming Fearless Divergent Dauntless Live Free Erudite Divergent Series Beatrice Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.”

Felt Interest Interesting Building Conversation Stores Coffee Weed Ink Participating Erudite Old Buildings

Book:Forever

Source: Forever

“"You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."”

Looks Made Dies Decision Shoulders Repercussions Insurgent Tobias Erudite

Author:Veronica Roth

“Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.”

Facts Shock Midst Grabbing Erudite

Book:Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

“Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.”

Knows Heart Mines Arrogance Flaws Erudite

Author:Veronica Roth

“I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a warning" I understand. "Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters . . ." I will. " . . . this will happen again" It will never happen again.”

Two Happens Messages Warning Negotiation Two Days Divergent Headquarters Erudite

Author:Veronica Roth

“"What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too. I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."”

Made Dies Decision Tears Throat Scream Repercussions Insurgent Erudite

Author:Veronica Roth

“I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.”

Knows Way Kind May Doe Found Father Difficult Born Saws Seeing Higher Demand Regard Chosen Selfishness Insecurity Selflessness Factions Kinds Of Love Erudite Abnegation

Author:Veronica Roth

“She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it.”

Trying Turns Girl Sorry Glasses Shoulders Pockets Logical Ladders Nicknames Pretty Girl Smack Erudite Christina

Author:Veronica Roth

“What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.”

Looks Made Enough Hands Eye Dies Decision Struggle Feet Tears Letting Go Shoulders His Eyes Throat Scream Peter Pale Palms Wraps Repercussions Insurgent Tobias Erudite Tobias Eaton

Author:Veronica Roth

“I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here," I say. "I know they're hidden, but I need access to them." "And what do you intend to do?" she says. "Shoot them," I say, rolling my eyes. "That isn't funny.”

Ifs Knows Needs Eye Wanted Asks Safe Access Rolling Erudite

Author:Veronica Roth

“"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."”

Dies Scream Insurgent Tobias Erudite

Author:Veronica Roth

“No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.”

Knows Kind May Doe Seeing Goodness Selfishness Insecurity Kinds Of Love Erudite Abnegation

Author:Veronica Roth

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