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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

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend. — Mason Cooley

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. — Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

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

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind. — Wilfrid

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

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life. — Helen Garner

I love Roald Dahl. — Tyra Banks

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

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. — Confucius