Erudition
The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
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Erudition Quotations
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
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
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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.
Frederick Reines
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Douglas Dunn
Erudition Translations
erudition in German is Belesenheit
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