God is a child
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. Elie Faure
Quotes for All
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. Elie Faure
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! Franz Grillparzer
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you — like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist — or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men’s judgments of one another. Desiderius Erasmus
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant. Confucius
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. Charles Caleb Colton
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements. Charles Caleb Colton
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Charles Caleb Colton
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. Albert J. Nock