Pedants famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Eric Hoffer

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My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
-- George Weinberg

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O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation
-- Jeremy Bentham

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
-- Sir Fulke Greville

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Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
-- Wilfrid

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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
-- Wilkie Collins

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Drinks, fans and snow - heaven
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.
One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.
I find that the quest to be perfect and make perfect music is like a black whole. I realize that you can come with the intention to capture a vibe and use a formula, but you have to accept that most of the time its not going to be what you envisioned and you might manifest something better. I think that's been the hardest thing to wrap my head around that most ideas we go for ends up sounding different. I think art in general should be about enjoying the process and the experience. All that matters is if you feel the music and it captures the element your going for.
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
You need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters, and they fall in love. They don't walk around with a big sign saying, "Bad guy," on their head. They think they're good guys. If you can play that, I think it makes it more interesting.
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