Erudition Quotes on Learning and Intellectual Life
Knowledge, well earned
One quote reflects on intellectuals speaking down to their rural Brethren, forgetting the labor that supports their own comfort.
Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
One can see the professionals and intellectuals talking to their rural brethren with an amused and condescending smile. They forget that but for the toiling rural masses, all their professional training and erudition would collapse like a castle of cards.
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If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was...
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.
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Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment...
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Another recalls entering graduate school partly to avoid the Army, a candid admission behind an otherwise scholarly pursuit.
