Opinionated assurance. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Pedantry is paraded knowledge. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A pedant is a precocious old man. [ De Boufflers ]

With loads of learned lumber in his head. [ Pope ]

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]

The brains of a pedant, however fall, are vacant. [ Greville ]

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Pedantry proceeds from much reading and little understanding. [ Steele ]

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. [ Colton ]

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. [ Coleridge ]

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. [ Wilkie Collins ]

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of knowledge. [ Bancroft ]

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

True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden. [ Hamerton ]

Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]

With us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking, is the country of wit and folly, of industry and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good taste and impertinence. [ Voltaire ]