To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian,… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored. — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
