Pedantry Quotes

27 quotes by 24 authors

Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and… — Nikola Tesla
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No… — Frederic Harrison
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books… — Henry Mackenzie
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases… — George Polya
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… — Albert J. Nock
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story… — Jill Lepore
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius,… — Ted Sizer
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry. — Alexander McCall Smith
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction… — Michel Houellebecq
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge. — Holbrook Jackson
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
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… — Albert J. Nock
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. — Henry Seidel Canby

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