Quotes by Pedantry The wages of pedantry is pain. Carroll O'Connor pedantry wages pain Robespierre, this pedant of freedom! Franz Grillparzer pedantry pedants freedom Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself. George Sarton erudition pedantry Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge. Holbrook Jackson pedantry scholarship Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Jonathan Swift pedantry rating kind Pedantry is paraded knowledge. Josh Billings pedantry To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma. Leonora Speyer pedantry dogma