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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
- Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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
- O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham