The Pretense Of Knowledge Quotes

#1. If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God's sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, you is on the dot.

James McBride

#2. forcibly stopped them,

Michelle Frances

#3. This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

Michael Hayden

#4. The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Edith Head

#5. In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Samuel Butler

#7. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it.

Jean Webster

#8. When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

Laozi

#9. Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

Karl Popper

#10. Humanity's favorite pasttime: pretending to know what it doesn't know.

Marty Rubin

#11. The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Criss Jami

#12. I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#13. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

#14. Style means no shield at all.
Style means no front at all.
Style means ultimate naturalness.
Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Benjamin Cardozo

#16. The worst thing about being a writer is having to pretend you know what you're talking about.

Marty Rubin

#17. Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

Various Attributed Sources

#18. If content is King, context is God.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#19. To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.

Tom Landry

#20. A veil of pretense can definitely conceal your dumbness but then it assures the proliferation of your dumbness instead of stagnating it by seeking knowledge from others.

Ayesha

#21. Originality is putting its pants on while orthodoxy is ready to deliver.

Santosh Kalwar