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Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine? ~ Giordano Bruno
Pedants quotes by Giordano Bruno
Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind. ~ Wilfrid
Pedants quotes by Wilfrid
God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator. ~ Elie Faure
Pedants quotes by Elie Faure
Just as we do not today differentiate between the Roman Republic and the imperial period of the Julio-Claudians when we think of the Roman Empire, so in the future no one will bother to make a distinction between the British Empire-led and the American-Republic-led periods of English-speaking dominance between the late-eighteenth and the twenty-first centuries. It will be recognized that in the majestic sweep of history they had so much in common
and enough that separated them from everyone else
that they ought to be regarded as a single historical entity, which only scholars and pedants will try to describe separately. ~ Andrew Roberts
Pedants quotes by Andrew Roberts
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
Pedants quotes by Jeremy Bentham
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Pedants quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! ~ Franz Grillparzer
Pedants quotes by Franz Grillparzer
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
Pedants quotes by Jonathan Swift
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit. ~ Ludwig Von Mises
Pedants quotes by Ludwig Von Mises
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. ~ Lord Chesterfield
Pedants quotes by Lord Chesterfield
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant. ~ Sir Fulke Greville
Pedants quotes by Sir Fulke Greville
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted. ~ Samuel Johnson
Pedants quotes by Samuel Johnson
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
Pedants quotes by Desiderius Erasmus
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Pedants quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Pedants quotes by 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
Pedants quotes by Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Pedants quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient? ~ Michel De Montaigne
Pedants quotes by Michel De Montaigne
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
Pedants quotes by H.L. Mencken
They have, to be sure, their proportion of ne'er-do-weels, their pedants and lettered fools, but they have a surprisingly small proportion of them; they have not that culture of manner which we instinctively associate with university men, forgetting that in reality it is the heritage from cultured homes, and that no people a generation removed from slavery can escape a certain unpleasant rawness and gaucherie, despite the best of ~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Pedants quotes by W.E.B. Du Bois
It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new. ~ Royal Cortissoz
Pedants quotes by Royal Cortissoz
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
Pedants quotes by Oliver North
He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Pedants quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. ~ H.P. Lovecraft
Pedants quotes by H.P. Lovecraft
Naturally, translators who dare to complain about these mistakes [e.g. false friends] are labelled hairsplitters and pedants (FR: pédants pinailleurs), but it is a badge we should wear with pride. ~ Emma Wagner
Pedants quotes by Emma  Wagner
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
Pedants quotes by William Hazlitt
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Pedants quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
There are all kinds of pedants around with more time to read and imitate Lynne Truss and John Humphrys than to write poems, love-letters, novels and stories it seems. They whip out their Sharpies and take away and add apostrophes from public signs, shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings, but do they bubble and froth and slobber and cream with joy at language? Do they ever let the tripping of the tips of their tongues against the tops of their teeth transport them to giddy euphoric bliss? Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it? Do they use language to seduce, charm, excite, please, affirm and tickle those they talk to? Do they? I doubt it. They're too farting busy sneering at a greengrocer's less than perfect use of the apostrophe. Well sod them to Hades. They think they're guardians of language. They're no more guardians of language than the Kennel Club is the guardian of dogkind. ~ Stephen Fry
Pedants quotes by Stephen Fry
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Pedants quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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
Pedants quotes by Mike Rowe
It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts aside his wooden sword, slingshot, bow-and-arrow and other childish games, when he begins to forge ahead, when the seriousness of the work begins to transform the rough-neck into a delicate, serious and an almost ascetic creature, when his face takes on an intelligent, deeper and more purposeful expression - then a teacher's heart laughs with happiness and pride. It is his duty and responsibility to control the raw energies and desires of his charges and replace them with calmer, more moderate ideals. What would many happy citizens and trustworthy officials have become but unruly, stormy innovators and dreamers of useless dreams, if not for the effort of their schools? In young beings there is something wild, ungovernable, uncultured which first has to be tamed. It is like a dangerous flame that has to be controlled or it will destroy. Natural man is unpredictable, opaque, dangerous, like a torrent cascading out of uncharted mountains. At the start, his soul is a jungle without paths or order. And, like a jungle, it must first be cleared and its growth thwarted. Thus it is the school's task to subdue and control man with force and make him a useful member of society, to kindle those qualities in him whose development will bring him to triumphant completion. ~ Hermann Hesse
Pedants quotes by Hermann Hesse
Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [ ... ] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches. ~ Stephen Jay Gould
Pedants quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. ~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Pedants quotes by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Pedants quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
Pedants quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ~ Albert J. Nock
Pedants quotes by Albert J. Nock
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ~ George Orwell
Pedants quotes by George Orwell
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world. ~ Henry Fielding
Pedants quotes by Henry Fielding
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. ~ Confucius
Pedants quotes by Confucius
Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge
criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment
three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are. ~ Horace Walpole
Pedants quotes by Horace Walpole
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Pedants quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Google, his mother says. The new new found land. Not so long ago it was only the mentally deranged, the unworldly pedants, the imperialists and the naivest of schoolchildren who believed that encyclopaediae gave you any equivalence for the actual world, or any real understanding of it. And door-to-door salesmen sold them, and they were never to be trusted. And even the authorized encyclopaediae, even them we never mistook for or accepted as any real knowledge of the world. But now the world trusts search engines without a thought. The canniest door-to-door salesmen ever invented. Never mind foot in the door. Already right at the heart of the house. ~ Ali Smith
Pedants quotes by Ali Smith
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
Pedants quotes by Albert J. Nock
Throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You have paid for your passion in humiliation, mutilation, and sometimes even - as when Henry VIII burned Bible translator William Tyndale as a heretic - immolation. I salute you all, as do my fellow books. ~ James K. Morrow
Pedants quotes by James K. Morrow
It's my belief that all of the greatest tales ever told have been told in saloons. It was in such smoky, heathen-filled den of iniquity that I first heard the tale of the Bone Feud. As with all great tales, it was at its core one hundred percent true. In fact, much of it has long been a matter of historical record. But tales grow in the telling, and I therefore must apologize in advance for any inaccuracies, and beg your indulgence for any romanticized embellishments. I have decided to present the story here, just as it was told to me. I find it entirely too rich and too entertaining to alter, simply to curry favor with pedants and historians. ~ Wynne McLaughlin
Pedants quotes by Wynne McLaughlin
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves ... ~ Peter Drucker
Pedants quotes by Peter Drucker
Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them. ~ Ted Sizer
Pedants quotes by Ted Sizer
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Pedants quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
Pedants quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
Yes. You do understand, you do. I knew you would. It was that analogy you made to the Quran that got me thinking in the first place. Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction. The stag and the doe and the trap. Instead of working with linear strings of ones and zeroes, the computer could work with bundles that were one and zero and every point in between, all at once. If, if, if you could teach it to overcome its binary nature."
"That sounds very complicated indeed."
"It should be impossible, but it isn't." Alif began typing furiously. "All modern computers are pedants. To them the world is divided into black and white, off and on, right and wrong. But I will teach yours to recognize multiple origin points, interrelated geneses, systems of multivalent cause and effect. ~ G. Willow Wilson
Pedants quotes by G. Willow Wilson
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently ... but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur. ~ Michael Ondaatje
Pedants quotes by Michael Ondaatje
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion
a form of knowledge without the power of it. ~ Joseph Addison
Pedants quotes by Joseph Addison
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. ~ Eric Hoffer
Pedants quotes by Eric Hoffer
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