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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
Charles de Montesquieu Quotes |
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“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows”
Helen Nielsen Quotes |
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“What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God”
Monica Baldwin Quotes |
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“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
Norman Vincent Peale Quotes |
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“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
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“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton Quotes |
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“Lowliness is the base of every virtue,
And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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“He saw a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility!
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Devil's Walk
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“I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the
other be where he may.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. I, ch. XVII)
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“'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (vol. I, ch. XVII)
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“show me someone not full of herself and i'll show
you a hungry person”
Nikki Giovanni Quotes Source: Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like
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“Humble things become the humble.
[Lat., Parvum parva decent.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 7, 44)
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“God hath sworn to lift on high
Who sinks himself by true humility.”
John Keble Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Poems--At Hooker's Tomb
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“O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Vanini (l. 327)
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“Don't be so humble--you are not that great.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Vanini (l. 327)
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“One may be humble out of pride.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes Source: Of Presumption (bk. II, ch. XVII)
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“Fairest and best adorned is she
Whose clothing is humility.”
James Montgomery Quotes Source: Humility
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“Nearest the throne itself must be
The footstool of humility.”
James Montgomery Quotes Source: Humility
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“Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Loves of the Angels--Third Angel's Story (st. 11)
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“I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 268)
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“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to
verify my notions have only wasted my time.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Prologue to Satires (l. 268)
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