Diligent Quote by H. L. Mencken

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the…

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Jonathan Swift

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

“You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.”

— Adam Carolla

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

— Gloria Steinem

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.

— Mark Kac

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer…

— Alfred Tarski

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

— Augustus De Morgan

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