Pretension Quotes

126 quotes by 109 authors

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting. — Tom Bodett
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez
This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this… — John Nelson Darby
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of… — Galen Strawson
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions. — William James
Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy… — Adolf Hitler
The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God — Pope Francis
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking… — Henry David Thoreau
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our… — Elias Hicks
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow… — Ada Lovelace
Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension! — Isaac Asimov
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON,… — Robert Sutton Harrington
He was Caesar and Pope in oÂne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without… — Benjamin Smith
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension. — Horatio Greenough
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension… — Carl Sagan
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the… — Colin McGinn
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be… — John Astin

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