Pedants Quotes

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

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 of thy master, Legislation

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.