Pedants Quotes
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
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.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
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
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.
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.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
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.
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.
Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality.
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.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.