Quotes with pedants

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• Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

  ― Alfred N. Whitehead
  English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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• The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.

  Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

  ― Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imagination
• headlocked
• seventies
• explosion
• emotional
• desperate

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