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Pedantry Quotes

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma Picture Quote #1

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put Picture Quote #1

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put Picture Quote #1

He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness Picture Quote #1

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge Picture Quote #1

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning Picture Quote #1

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The wages of pedantry is pain Picture Quote #1

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself Picture Quote #1

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company Picture Quote #1

Wit without humanity degenerates into bitterness. Learning without prudence into pedantry Picture Quote #1

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them Picture Quote #1

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

… contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed Picture Quote #1

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young Picture Quote #1

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it Picture Quote #1

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly Picture Quote #1

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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine Picture Quote #1

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To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma (Pedantry Quotes) This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put (Pedantry Quotes) This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put (Pedantry Quotes) He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness (Pedantry Quotes) Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge (Pedantry Quotes) Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning (Pedantry Quotes) The wages of pedantry is pain (Pedantry Quotes) Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself (Pedantry Quotes) Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company (Pedantry Quotes) Wit without humanity degenerates into bitterness. Learning without prudence into pedantry (Pedantry Quotes) Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. (Pedantry Quotes) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education (Pedantry Quotes) 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 (Pedantry Quotes) 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 (Pedantry Quotes) … contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed (Pedantry Quotes) Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young (Pedantry Quotes) Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it (Pedantry Quotes) Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly (Pedantry Quotes) History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of history, a story without an argument fades into antiquarianism; an argument without a story risks pedantry. Writing history requires empathy, inquiry, and debate. It requires forswearing condescension, cant, and nostalgia. The past isn’t quaint. Much of it, in fact, is bleak (Pedantry Quotes) 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 (Pedantry Quotes) 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 (Pedantry Quotes) In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine (Pedantry Quotes)