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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
- 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
- I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian,… — Michael Ondaatje
- 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