Pedant Quotes

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. - Confucius

What a liberal confounding of those pedantic distinctions of meum and tuum! or rather what a noble simplification of language! - Charles Lamb

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. - William Congreve

'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill

The wages of pedantry is pain. - Carroll O'Connor

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. - Albert J. Nock

Pedantry: stupidity that read a book. - Unknown

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. - Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge. - Holbrook Jackson