Quotes by Pedants 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. Albert J. Nock pedants culture world 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 forget culture Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Charles Caleb Colton disgusting pedants ignorance When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant. Confucius pedants nature culture Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. Desiderius Erasmus pedants criticism men Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! Franz Grillparzer pedantry pedants freedom 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 pedants bully father Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. George Orwell joyce pedants poet 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 logic experts The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. H. L. Mencken fixing pedants language A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. Jean Antoine Petit-Senn pedants ignorant knows He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Jean de la Bruyere pedants writing advice 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 destiny math Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? Johann Kaspar Lavater pedants heart war Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. Joseph Addison pedants form hypocrisy 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 age two Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. Lois McMaster Bujold nomenclature pedants waste The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. Lord Chesterfield pedants philosopher philosophy The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend. Mason Cooley pedants nudity art 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 pedants men philosophy 12»