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  • The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

    School   Men   May  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206
  • 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.

  • A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

    Thomas Carlyle (1872). “History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great”, p.276
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jan 09, 2013
  • 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.

    College   Air   Smell  
  • Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

  • Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

    Pedants   Poet   Joyce  
    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film.

    Wrath   Years   Adults  
  • A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

  • Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

    Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). “Memory (Hardcover)”, p.186, Baen Books
  • Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

    Two   Age   Pedants  
    Jonathan Swift (1761). “Works”, p.359
  • Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

    H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.31, H. G. Wells
  • 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?

  • Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

    Fire   Musician   Drones  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3286, e-artnow
  • He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

  • 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.

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

    Vanity   Proud   Pedants  
  • Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

    Silly   Opportunity   Men  
    Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC
  • When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

    "Lun Yü".
  • We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.

    Lying   Heart   Winter  
    Oswald Spengler (1961). “Form and actuality”
  • 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.

  • The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

    Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.57, Oxford University Press
  • 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 (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Culture   World   Pedants  
  • The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.123
  • 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 (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196
  • This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

    Wall Street Journal, December 9, 1948.
  • The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

    H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language”, p.607, Knopf
  • 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 (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

    Art   Pedants   Nudity  
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