Pedants Quotes
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Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois McMaster -
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
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The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.
Mike Rowe -
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
William Arthur Ward -
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