Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that? — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic.” — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and… — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much… — Céleste Albaret Copy Share Image
“At Columbia and far beyond, T.D. was renowned and celebrated. At the weekly research seminars I attended ... every speaker felt compelled… — Emanuel Derman Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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