Caricatures Quote by Miguel de Unamuno

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

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

— Lord Chesterfield

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

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

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Anonymous

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson