1 He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024February 7, 2024, Jean de la Bruyere, Advice, Pedants, Writing, 0 - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France Copy
2 Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lois McMaster Bujold, Pedants, Waste, 0 - Lois McMaster Bujold Author Copy
3 The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lord Chesterfield, Pedants, Philosopher, Philosophy, 0 - Lord Chesterfield Politician · England Copy
4 Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Wilkie Collins, Pedants, Proud, Vanity, 0 - Wilkie Collins Novelist · England Copy
5 The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Language, Pedants, 0 - H. L. Mencken Copy
6 A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024January 18, 2024, Jean Antoine Petit-Senn, Ignorant, Pedants, 0 - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Poet · Switzerland Copy
7 Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion–a form of knowledge without the power of it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joseph Addison, Form, Hypocrisy, Pedants, 0 - Joseph Addison Writer · England Copy
8 He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Stefan Zweig, Learn, Passion, Pedants, 0 - Stefan Zweig Writer · Austria Copy
9 When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Confucius, Culture, Nature, Pedants, 0 - Confucius Philosopher · China Copy
10 Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Disgusting, Ignorance, Pedants, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England Copy
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