For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown;… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“Perfect' - the most misattributed word in English language A 'perfect' thing can never be improved - at least by what the… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day;… — Jody Gehrman Copy Share Image
Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
