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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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
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
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg 
73% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce
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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Douglas Dunn
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