Pedants Quotes

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

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

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.

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

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

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

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

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

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

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

A fool is only troublesome,
a pedant insupportable.

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.

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.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

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

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.

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

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