A Quote by Holbrook Jackson
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
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Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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.
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
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 and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. [...] To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.
It's strange to be getting into your dotage and suddenly discovering that you have a fanbase.
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
The wages of pedantry is pain.
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?
Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
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