“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.” WayInspirationGrowsDarknessGreatnessSweetDespairMadnessSakeLovelyQuestioningMaliceTurmoilImpotenceErudition Author:Adam Zagajewski
“Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.” KnowsNeedsAttentionFailingGardenPay AttentionAbsentGardenerBasicsErudition Author:Barbara Damrosch
“You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.” IfsEnoughEyeCareArtistPassionWishMemoriesResultsRichSubjectsReaderMassHundredBe GoodVisualsEruditionVisual Images Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.” ProduceFruitFoliageEruditionBearing Fruit Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“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.” SchoolCoursesChanceTechnologyChangedEnthusiasmEncountersOfficersImpressedInstituteAdmissionEruditionChance Encounters Author:Frederick Reines
“Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.” FactsAgeRememberValuesSinOpinionProgressRiskCivilizationDegreesDepthMusclesFairnessFortitudeAestheticsNourishmentComplicationMilitarismRigorEruditionFluencyWithout Trust Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.” MayArtSelfJoyPleasurePureAestheticEgotisticalEvaluationEruditionSelf Evaluation Author:Marcel Proust
“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.” WellsFeelingsBeautifulTasteJudgmentProfoundAppreciationNobleEruditionTaste And Judgment Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.” ShouldWritingHappensCertainProofImmortalityCrownsQuotationsInsipidErudition Author:Frances Brooke