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
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
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
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. — Lois McMaster Bujold 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
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. — Charles Caleb Colton 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
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
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
It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents… — Royal Cortissoz Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They… — Ludwig von Mises 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
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