Unpretentious Quotes

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Wolfgang Pauli, in the months before Heisenberg's paper on matrix mechanics pointed the way to a new quantum theory, wrote to a friend, "At the moment physics is again terribly confused. In any case, it is too difficult for me, and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics." That testimony is particularly impressive if contrasted with Pauli's words less than five months later: "Heisenberg's type of mechanics has again given me hope and joy in life. To be sure it does not supply the solution to the riddle, but I believe it is again possible to march forward.”
― Wolfgang Pauli Thomas S. Kuhn

“For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.”
― Charmaine J Forde

“Sometimes I need to remember that a stone is just a stone, a horse is just a horse. One of the first things you ever learn at vet school is not to make things more complex than they outwardly seem. When you hear the sound of hooves, one of our first-year lecturers had said, assume it is a horse, not a Pegasus. It means: Always go for the simplest explanation first— the most common. Horses are common. Even unicorns are. But, being both shy and extremely rare, Pegasuses are almost never seen, even by the most experienced myth.creat vets in the world.”
― Keshe Chow, Strange Familiars