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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
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
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
The pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillowof — Alexandre Dumas
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.
— Cassandra Page
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
May all humankind find grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ah, well. You can't fix stupid. And you can't heal crazy.
— Thea Harrison
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
— George Santayana
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
— Thomas Carlyle
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
— Sir Fulke Greville
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
— Warren E. Burger
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
— Simon Van Booy
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
Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.
— Greg Kinnear
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.
— Michael Baden
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
— Israel Shenker
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
— Confucius
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
— George Orwell
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte