Pretense Quotes

166 quotes by 146 authors

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises. — Laozi
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. — Benjamin Cardozo
Love is a choice â€” not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide.… — Carter Heyward
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its… — Peter McWilliams
If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama… — Nate Silver
Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done?… — Unknown Author
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right… — Brock Chisholm
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to… — Ambrose Bierce
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true,… — Patrick Cleburne
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense — Charles Churchill
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private… — Ernst Cassirer
I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is… — Faye Wattleton
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Unknown Author
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really… — Ram Dass
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran
I donâ€™t claim to know an over-arching â€˜Meaning of Life,â€™ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the… — David G. McAfee
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks… — James MacArthur
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to… — Alan Watts
For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one… — Socrates

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