Quotes About Pedantry

despertaba ese incompatible rencor que sólo causan la inteligencia, la gracia y la pedantería francesas [...]

I love clothing, and I love fashion, but I think that there is too much pedantry in fashion, and saying, 'You have to wear all of these things together; you can't button this button.' You know, all of that kind of stuff.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

La linguistica gli sembrava la scienza adatta per le persone che hanno la pedanteria necessaria per la matematica, ma non l'intelligenza. Per le persone che si inventano una propria logica, secondo il bisogno.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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.

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.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation,Figures pedantical.

Ciò dimostra che al giorno d'oggi la mancanza di pedanteria viene scambiata per furto deliberato.

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

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

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

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.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?

Vain labour for me — vain labour almost for the grave English language — to do justice to the sparkling paradoxes that flew from lip to lip. The favourite theme was the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. Condorcet on this head was eloquent, and to some, at least, of his audience, most convincing. That Voltaire was greater than Homer few there were disposed to deny. Keen was the ridicule lavished on the dull pedantry which finds everything ancient necessarily sublime.

If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this book. By all means congratulate yourself that you are not a pedant or even a stickler; that you are happily equipped to live in a world of plummeting punctuation standards; but just don't bother to go any further.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A Babylonish dialectWhich learned pedants much affect.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.