Pretension famous quotes

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

#Growth #Vulnerable #Pretension

Faith begins where religious pretension ends
-- Austin Farrer

#Religious #Ends #Pretension

What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
-- Denis Norden

#Cheese #Harps #Pretension

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Power #Pretension

Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
-- Emil Ludwig

#Planning #Intention #Pretension

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
-- Eric Temple Bell

#Absolute Truth #Pretension

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
-- Hosea Ballou

#Being Original #Pretension

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Nature #Pretension

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
-- Mary Douglas

#Moral #Pretension #Superiority

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Sincere #Pretension

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
-- Samuel Foote

#Ignorance #Pretension #Decency

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
-- Theophrastus

#Doe #Boasters #Pretension

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

#Different #Pretension