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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
— Franz Grillparzer
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
— Alexander McCall Smith
There's joy in the journey, not just in its destination.
— Marnie C. Ferree
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
— Thomas Beecham
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism ... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
— Henry Seidel Canby
Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
— Richard M. Weaver
Pedantry. The delight in living. Brio. The chance to act, to mime, to mock, to mimic.
— Alexander Theroux
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
— Leonora Speyer
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
— George Berkeley
Though pedantry denies,It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens ... — William Butler Yeats
My husband is my most valuable resource.
— Meg Rosoff
I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
— George Sarton
You're not crazy. I love you.
— Lauren Hammond
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religiona form of knowledge without the power of it. — Joseph Addison
The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.
— Melanie Brown
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
This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.
— Mother Teresa
The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.
— Thomas De Quincey
Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.
— Michael Beschloss
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
— Holbrook Jackson
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
— Francis Bacon
The wages of pedantry is pain.
— Carroll O'Connor
Faith sees that in her worst sorrow - there is nothing penal; there is not a drop of God's wrath in it;
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Be a reflection of excellence.
— Steve Maraboli
No one can ever say the name Abel without saying Cain first.
— Kimberley Troutte
Pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene
— Victor Hugo
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
— Winston S. Churchill
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
— Thomas Carlyle
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
— Josh Billings