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- 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
- 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… — 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… — Royal Cortissoz
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — 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… — 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… — Charles Caleb Colton