Pedantry Quotes
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
— Charles Caleb Colton
No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
— W.G. Sebald
Breathing in and breathing out, those two things we must never forget about.
— Lydia Rubi Suazo
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
— Franz Grillparzer
Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.
— James S.A. Corey
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It felt as if there were a larger, terribly curious Blue inside her that was about to bust out of the smaller, more sensible Blue that held her.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry
— Victor Hugo
We each have 24 hours in a given day; how we choose to spend each moment determines how spent we are"! EL
— Evinda Lepins
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
— George Berkeley
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
— Henry Seidel Canby
The only thing we have to fear ... is audiovisual glitches at our annual event.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.
— Christian Slater
Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic.
— Alexander Theroux
Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
— George Sarton
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion
a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison
a form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison
I don't like this, not one bit. I don't have many morals, but the ones I do have are not happy.
— Abigail Roux
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
— Albert J. Nock
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
— Josh Billings
The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.
— Thomas De Quincey
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
— Holbrook Jackson
I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
— Vincent Schiavelli
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The wages of pedantry is pain.
— Carroll O'Connor
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
— Leonora Speyer
Pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene
— Victor Hugo
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
— Winston S. Churchill
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
— Thomas Carlyle
Though pedantry denies,
It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens ... — William Butler Yeats
It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens ... — William Butler Yeats