Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
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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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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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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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