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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
Franz Grillparzer / Writer
Freedom
Pedantry
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater / Poet
War
Heart
Pedants
Warm
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell / Novelist
Joyce
Pedants
Poet
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The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
Sir Fulke Greville / Baron Willoughby De Broke
Brain
Pedants
Vacant
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Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
Wilfrid Sheed / Novelist
Baseball
Fans
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
Napoleon Bonaparte / Military Commander
Fool
Pedants
Stupidity
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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
Thomas Carlyle / Philosopher
Dialect
Pedants
Stupid
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This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Pedants
Prepositions
Type
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Desiderius Erasmus / Theologian
Men
Criticism
Pedantic
Pedants
Judgments
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
Charles Caleb Colton / Writer
Disgusting
Ignorance
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Lord Chesterfield / British Statesman
Pedants
Philosopher
Philosophy
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He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
Stefan Zweig / Novelist
Learning
Passion
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The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
Mason Cooley /
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Nudity
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
Wilkie Collins / Novelist
Pedants
Proud
Vanity
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A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn / Poet
Ignorant
Knows
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois Mcmaster Bujold / Author
Nomenclature
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Waste
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
William Arthur Ward / Author
Journey
Knowledge
Imagination
Fool
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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Jean De La Bruyere /
Advice
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The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Fixing
Language
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Confucius / Philosopher
Nature
Culture
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Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Joseph Addison / Essayist
Form
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My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
George Weinberg / Psychologist
Bully
Eighteen
Father
Pedants
Cared
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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.
William Hazlitt / Writer
Faults
Pedants
Writing
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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 of a man.
Miguel De Unamuno / Novelist
Men
Pedants
Philosophy
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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Albert J. Nock / Author
Culture
Diligent
Forget
Pedantry
Pedants
Forgetting
Otherwise
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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 / Journalist
Experts
Logic
Pedants
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Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
Jonathan Swift / Pamphleteer
Age
Pedants
Two
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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 of thy master, Legislation
Jeremy Bentham / Philosopher
Destiny
Math
Pedants
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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.
Albert J. Nock / Author
Culture
Modern World
Pedantry
Pedants
World
Established
Expense
Forgetting
Therefore
Throughout
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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.
Mike Rowe / Actor
Pedants
Sides
Understanding
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I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.
Scott Simon / Journalist
Art
Magazines
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