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Pedantry Quotes

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Holbrook Jackson
Scholarship, Pedantry
'Anatomy of Bibliomania' (1930) vol. 1, p. 150

The wages of pedantry is pain.

Carroll O'Connor
Pain, Wages, Pedantry

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

George Sarton
Erudition, Pedantry
George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

Leonora Speyer
Dogma, Pedantry

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

Josh Billings
Pedantry

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Franz Grillparzer
Freedom, Pedants, Pedantry

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

Jonathan Swift
Kind, Rating, Pedantry
Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.268

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