Quotes and Sayings 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 Goswami -
Faith begins where religious pretension ends
-- Austin Farrer -
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
-- Denis Norden -
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
-- Emil Ludwig -
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
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 -
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 Sheridan -
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