Pedants Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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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 is a caricature…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
— Confucius
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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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
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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
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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
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Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
— Wilfrid
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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
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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
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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
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The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
— Israel Shenker
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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
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Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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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
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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
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
— George Orwell
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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
Who Wrote These Pedants Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Pedants Quotes as follows: