Absurd Quote by Henry Mackenzie

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

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

— Anonymous

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— June Brown

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

Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in…

— George Polya

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