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Tag Name "Pedantry" (24)

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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.
Henry Mackenzie
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Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
Josh Billings
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules while common sense is contented to be right without them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
Holbrook Jackson
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Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
Jonathan Swift
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Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural it is neither tedious nor frivolous it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.
Ted Sizer
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The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.
Thomas de Quincey
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This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
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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
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Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
Alexander McCall Smith
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One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.
Bruno Schulz
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The wages of pedantry is pain.
Carroll O'Connor
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Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
George Sarton
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Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.
Mike Duncan
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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
William Butler Yeats
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Albert J. Nock
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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
Albert J. Nock