Quotes About Pedantry

To the editor, the author, and the public speaker, it is believed that a great convenience will hereby be afforded; for nothing adorns a composition or a speech more than appropriate quotations—endorsing, as it were, our own sentiments with the sanction of other minds—unless the habit of quoting is too often indulged, when it degenerates into pedantry, and becomes unpleasing.

Curious pedantries moved him.

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.

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

Ah, intellettuali. E lei voleva che ne assumessi uno. Perchè mai, se si ha così poco da dire, lo si dice nella maniera più pomposa e pedante possibile? Sarà per ingannare gli altri o se stessi?

Sería largo enumerar ahora todos los rincones del universo que conozco y los acontecimientos fabulosos que he vivido en ellos y, lo sé por experiencia, habría más de uno que lo encontraría una pedantería o una falsedad, de modo que preferiría no dar crédito a mis palabras antes que dejarse cautivar por ellas. Pobres almas insípidas que no merecen que nada extraordinario les ocurra.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

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.

Serious men, grave persons and reasonable people; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.

[W]hat mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

he was punished by the envy of journalists, and by the malignant pedantry of half-civilised judges. Envy in his case overleaped itself: the hate of his justicers was so diabolic that they have given him to the pity of mankind forever; they it is who have made him eternally interesting to humanity, a tragic figure of imperishable renown.

Pedantry iz the science ov investing what little yu know in one kind ov perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knose whom you meet.

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

'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

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

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

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it.

Era uno de esos pedantes que tanto abundaban a la sazón, siervos del paganismo resucitado, de quienes Erasmo se mofa porque sólo consideraban verdaderamente latinas las palabras que Cicerón incluyó en su léxico.