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Pedants Quotes

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination Picture Quote #1

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind Picture Quote #1

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity Picture Quote #1

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend Picture Quote #1

Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of knowledge Picture Quote #1

Principally I played pedants, idiots, old fathers, and drunkards. As you see, I had a narrow escape from becoming a professor Picture Quote #1

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The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma Picture Quote #1

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality Picture Quote #1

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual Picture Quote #1

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit Picture Quote #1

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants Picture Quote #1

The useful science of the world to know, which books can never teach, nor pedants show Picture Quote #1

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Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride Picture Quote #1

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter Picture Quote #1

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain Picture Quote #1

God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator Picture Quote #1

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination (Pedants Quotes) Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind (Pedants Quotes) Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity (Pedants Quotes) The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend (Pedants Quotes) Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of knowledge (Pedants Quotes) Principally I played pedants, idiots, old fathers, and drunkards. As you see, I had a narrow escape from becoming a professor (Pedants Quotes) The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma (Pedants Quotes) It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality (Pedants Quotes) Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual (Pedants Quotes) Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit (Pedants Quotes) Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants (Pedants Quotes) The useful science of the world to know, which books can never teach, nor pedants show (Pedants Quotes) Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride (Pedants Quotes) History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter (Pedants Quotes) The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. (Pedants Quotes) God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator. (Pedants Quotes)