Assuming Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

— Peggy Noonan

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…

— Henry David Thoreau

Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off,…

— Henry David Thoreau

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

— Anonymous

I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since…

— Oliver Cowdery

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved…

— Caio Fonseca

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe…

— Lisa Scottoline

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art,…

— Anton Chekhov

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases…

— Alfred Tarski

“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse…

— Samuel Johnson

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

— Booth Tarkington

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan