Top 16 Pretension Quotes

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

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

Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, Maggie Goswami (1993). “The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World”, Tarcher

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

Theophrastus

Doe, Boasters, Pretension

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

Hosea Ballou

Being Original, Pretension, Originals

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Sincere, Pretension

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

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Mary Douglas

Moral, Pretension, Destructive

Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.

Emil Ludwig

Planning, Intention, Pretension

Faith begins where religious pretension ends

Austin Farrer

Religious, Ends, Pretension

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Problem, Findings, Pretension

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Eric Temple Bell

Absolute Truth, Eternal, Pretension

Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

Samuel Foote

Ignorance, Exterior, Pretension

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Tom Bodett

Thinking, Self, Pretension

"Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Higher, Pretension, Pretence

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

Denis Norden

Cheese, Harps, Pretension

Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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

Source: logger.believermag.com