Pedant Quotes

“Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.”

“It’s my belief that all of the greatest tales ever told have been told in saloons. It was in such smoky, heathen-filled den of iniquity that I first heard the tale of the Bone Feud. As with all great tales, it was at its core one hundred percent true. In fact, much of it has long been a matter of historical record. But tales grow in the telling, and I therefore must apologize in advance for any inaccuracies, and beg your indulgence for any romanticized embellishments. I have decided to present the story here, just as it was told to me. I find it entirely too rich and too entertaining to alter, simply to curry favor with pedants and historians.”

“Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”

“An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.”

“Almost pedantically, she added: "They're not really bombs-- they're acoustic provocations.”

“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”

“Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”

“A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.”

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