#pedant

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ↗

— George Orwell

#joyce #pedant #poet

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

#effect #fault #gives #hardly #him

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#brain #digests #education #folly #fool

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero.  I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason.  I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#death

literally: This word should be deleted. All too often, actions described as “literally” did not happen at all. As in, “He literally jumped out of his skin.” No, he did not. Though if he literally had, I’d suggest raising the element and proposing the piece for page one. Inserting “literally” willy-nilly reinforces the notion that breathless nitwits lurk within this newsroom. Eliminate on sight—the usage, not the nitwits. The nitwits are to be captured ↗

— Tom Rachman

#pedantic #humor

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#another #judgments #nothing #pedantic

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ↗

— Henry Seidel Canby

#directing #diseases #dogmatism #intellects #lives