Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
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.
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
