If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for… — John Astin Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is only when we realize and celebrate the intrinsic value of every human life that celebrity - true celebrity -… — Nancy Cobb Copy Share Image
Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable… — William James Copy Share Image
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian” — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant. — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the… — Anna Aquino Copy Share Image
People. Falling for each others pretensions, fakeness and whatever various faces they can put on to wear. And then they call it… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
