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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Confucius
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
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
Wilkie Collins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Joseph Addison
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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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
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The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
H. L. Mencken
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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
19.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell
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
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
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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