quotes about Pretension
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When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
-- Amit GoswamiSource : Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami (1993). “The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World”, Tarcher
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Faith begins where religious pretension ends
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What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
-- Denis NordenSource : Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd
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Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
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Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
-- Emil Ludwig -
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
-- Eric Temple BellSource : Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
-- Hosea Ballou -
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
-- Mary Douglas -
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
-- Richard Brinsley SheridanSource : Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.77
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One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
-- Samuel Foote -
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
-- Theophrastus -
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There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a café or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it.
-- Ottessa Moshfegh