Pedantry Quotes

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Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

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.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.