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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. -- George Orwell
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way. -- Gunter Grass
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! -- Franz Grillparzer
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant. -- Sir Fulke Greville
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. -- Thomas Carlyle
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. -- Lord Chesterfield
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. -- Stefan Zweig
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. -- George Santayana
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. -- Confucius
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored. -- Israel Shenker
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
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
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
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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

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