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- Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted… — 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… — Frederic Harrison
- Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it… — Thomas Carlyle
- Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie
- Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits… — George Polya
- 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
- History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore
- Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations… — 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… — Ted Sizer
- Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. — Jonathan Swift