Fixing Quote by H. L. Mencken

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

— June Brown

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

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

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

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers…

— Giordano Bruno

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

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Wade Davis

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

— Jonathan Swift

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes…

— Simin Behbahani