Quotes with erudition

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• Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

  Hannah Arendt
  German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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• Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• pseudo-scholarship
• irrelevancy
• development
• original
• possible
• actually

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