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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
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
— Franz Grillparzer
Season your admiration for a while.
— William Shakespeare
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Guard your heart against anger.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religiona form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
— Thomas Carlyle
Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
— Sir Fulke Greville
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.
— Cassandra Page
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.
— Oliver North
You won't ever know, unless you try!
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate.
— Joseph Stiglitz
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
— Jean De La Bruyere
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
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
— H.L. Mencken
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
I love Roald Dahl.
— Tyra Banks
