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
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
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift 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
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
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
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is… — Frederic Harrison Copy Share Image
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry. — Thomas de Quincey 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
Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out… — Mike Duncan 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
“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
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
