Pedantry Quotations

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.

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put

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