Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry. — Thomas de Quincey 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
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
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
But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love clothing, and I love fashion, but I think that there is too much pedantry in fashion, and saying, 'You have… — Paul F. Tompkins 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
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
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
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
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
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
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
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
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
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