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Pedants Quotes

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Confucius

Authors on Pedants Quotes: H. L. Mencken Albert J. Nock Jean de la Bruyere Charles Caleb Colton Mason Cooley Winston Churchill Jeremy Bentham Confucius Napoleon Bonaparte Miguel de Unamuno Thomas Carlyle Johann Kaspar Lavater George Orwell Mike Rowe Scott Simon Joseph Addison Wilfrid Sheed George Weinberg Lois McMaster Bujold Sir Fulke Greville Jonathan Swift Wilkie Collins Franz Grillparzer Desiderius Erasmus Lord Chesterfield Stefan Zweig Jean Antoine Petit-Senn William Hazlitt
2.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Desiderius Erasmus

3.
The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.
Mike Rowe

4.
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

5.
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
Wilkie Collins

6.
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
George Weinberg

7.
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Albert J. Nock

8.
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
H. L. Mencken

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O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation
Jeremy Bentham

10.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Albert J. Nock

11.
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Joseph Addison

12.
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
Charles Caleb Colton

13.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois McMaster Bujold

14.
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
Jonathan Swift

15.
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
H. L. Mencken

16.
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Lord Chesterfield

17.
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
Thomas Carlyle

18.
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater

19.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell

20.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

21.
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer

22.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Jean de la Bruyere

23.
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
Mason Cooley

24.
A fool is only troublesome,
a pedant insupportable.
Napoleon Bonaparte

25.
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
Miguel de Unamuno

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I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.
Scott Simon

27.
Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
Wilfrid Sheed

28.
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
Sir Fulke Greville

29.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
Stefan Zweig

30.
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
William Hazlitt