Pedant Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

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… — Miguel de Unamuno
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. — Confucius
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told… — Royal Cortissoz
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails… — Samuel Johnson
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored. — Israel Shenker
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
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. — Jean de la Bruyere
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided… — Charles Caleb Colton
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. — George Orwell
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of… — Michael Ondaatje
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is… — H.G. Wells
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
An eagle-eyed viewer might be able to see the wires. A pedant might be able to see the wires. But I think if you're looking… — Dean Learner
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried… — Samuel Johnson

Who Wrote These Pedant Quotes

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