#erudition

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. ↗

— James Madison

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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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. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Douglas Dunn

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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

— William Safire

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