Pretensions Quotes
Women have often more of what is called good sense then men. They have fewer pretensions; are less implicated in theories; and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind, and, therefore, more truly and naturally. - William Hazlitt
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts. - Elias Hicks
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. - William James
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. - Alex Winter
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. - Friedrich Schleiermacher
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions. - William James
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. - Freda Adler
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