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

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

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. [ Swift ]

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]