Disgusting Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

— Joseph Addison

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

— Ben Jonson

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

— William Godwin

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

— Samuel Johnson

“Ignorance can stifle learning, especially if the ignorant person believes that he or she is not ignorant.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world…

— Albert J. Nock

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

— George Bernard Shaw

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

— George Sarton

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

— Brian Herbert