Been Quote by Giordano Bruno

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Joseph Addison

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

— Anonymous

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

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

I'm absolutely pedantic about language; it must go back to my schools.

— June Brown

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any…

— Albert J. Nock

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

— George Sarton

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

— Lois McMaster Bujold