Knowledge Quote by Josh Billings

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

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

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Anonymous

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

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 prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— June Brown

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

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

— George Sarton

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