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Pedantry Quotes

You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an unhealthy & reverie-like vividness of Thoughts, & (pardon the pedantry of the phrase) a diminished Impressibility from Things, my ideas, wishes, & feelings are to a diseased degree disconnected from motion & action. In plain and natural English, I am a dreaming & therefore an indolent man. I am a Starling self-incaged, & always in the Moult, & my whole Note is, Tomorrow, &... Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Winston Churchill quote: "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill
Carroll O'Connor quote: "The wages of pedantry is pain."
The wages of pedantry is pain. Carroll O'Connor
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
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
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
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. Henry Seidel Canby
George Bernard Shaw quote: "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into..."
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw

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