Quotes for All
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument – their intellect – which must inevitably lead them, if they … Read more
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
For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions. Erich Fromm
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. Eric Temple Bell
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. Emmet Fox
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension. Emilio Aguinaldo
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions. Emil Ludwig
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I’d rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal … Read more
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