Pedants Quotes

26 quotes by 24 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
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive… — Ludwig von Mises
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
Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind. — Wilfrid
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
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid… — Jeremy Bentham
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored. — Israel Shenker
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into… — Eric Hoffer
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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
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
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for… — Steven Pinker

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