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
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
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
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
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
He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
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
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
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
