Education Quote by Joseph Addison

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

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

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

— George Sarton

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

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

— Anonymous

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 bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury