Pedantry Quotes

'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

Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. - Joseph Addison

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. - Albert J. Nock

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