It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "P" » pedant
«Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination»
«Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?»
«When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.»
«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»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(
Writer)
|
Keywords:
drain,
imitator,
imitators,
originality,
orthodoxy,
pedant,
pedants,
pounce,
pounced,
pounces,
stifled,
stifles,
stifling,
stirrings
«Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(
Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
|
About:
Common sense
|
Keywords:
bullied,
Bullies,
bullying,
pedant,
pedants,
specialist,
specialists,
The Specialist