A Quote by Jonathan Swift

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Jonathan Swift

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Jonathan Swift
Irish - Writer
November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

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

Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.

Alexander Khalifman

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

Holbrook Jackson

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

Josh Billings

The only time to believe any kind of rating is when it shows you at the top.

Bob Hope

["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

Sonia Braga

The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.

Kellyanne Conway

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

Joseph Addison

We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.

Philip Hammond

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

Plato

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.

Henry Mackenzie

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

Ralph Bakshi

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Rebecca Solnit

We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.

Bob Holden

The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

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