Pretension Quotes
126 quotes by 109 authors
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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
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I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
— Hugo Chavez
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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
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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
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
— Anatole France
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
— William James
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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
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God
— Pope Francis
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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
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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
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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
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Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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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
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... 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
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In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
— Horatio Greenough
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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
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the…
— Colin McGinn
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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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