#pedant

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#heart #pedant #seen #warm #you

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

#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

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

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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ↗

— George Orwell

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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