quotes about Pedantry

last updated: November 28, 2023

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.
-- Bruno Schulz

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Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.
-- George Sarton

Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

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Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
-- Holbrook Jackson

Source : 'Anatomy of Bibliomania' (1930) vol. 1, p. 150

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To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
-- Leonora Speyer

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The wages of pedantry is pain.
-- Carroll O'Connor

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“Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.”
“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”
“My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.”
“It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality. The leadership numbers for women in business really haven't changed since I began as CEO. There are only 21 female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, there is only 17 to 19 percent of female representatives in Congress, there are only eight female governors.”

Source : "Interview: Producer & CEO Julie Smolyansky, 2017 Women in Film Chicago Focus Awards Honoree". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. February 21, 2017.
“The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.”
“Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.”
“The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.”
“It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.”
“People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt