Top 31 Pedant Quotes
#1. The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Lord Chesterfield
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.
Fredrik Backman
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. My father was himself a college professor and a pedant to the bone. Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. To this day, the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.
Karen Joy Fowler
#10. A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
Thomas Carlyle
#12. A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, 'Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?' And the sage answered him, 'Precisely for that reason - because it does not avail.
Miguel De Unamuno
#13. Now, there's a young man who looks like a real pedant, for you!
Victor Hugo
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#18. When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
Confucius
#19. He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Jean De La Bruyere
#20. 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
#21. The pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillow
of
Alexandre Dumas
#22. 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
#23. Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more.
Donna Tartt
#24. An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
George Santayana
#26. The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#27. He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
Stefan Zweig
#28. The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
Israel Shenker
#29. Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell
#31. Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.
Cassandra Page
