A Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
American - Writer
Born: November 2, 1949

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

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

Stefan Zweig

All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.