Men Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of…

— Henry Mackenzie

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

— Jonathan Swift

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

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

— Joseph Addison

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life,…

— Jeremy Collier

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

— George Sarton

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

— William Shakespeare

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment…

— Baron d'Holbach

I don't court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.

— Jwala Gutta

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

— Lewis B. Smedes

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

— Henri Frederic Amiel