“ Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism… the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ”
- Henry S. Canby- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice… ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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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- Copy
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