true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: humility humbleness narcissism narcissists hollywood-culture true-humility
Would you like to be taught Latin?' I said briskly. 'I will teach it to you with pleasure as I learn it.'
'Oh, thank you, Master Copperfield,' he answered, shaking his head. 'I am sure it's very kind of you to make the offer, but I am much too umble to accept it.'
'What nonsense, Uriah!'
'Oh, indeed you must excuse me, Master Copperfield! I am greatly obliged, and I should like it of all things, I assure you; but I am far too umble. There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on umbly, Master Copperfield.
Tags: humor humbleness
We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.
Bryant McGillTags: kindness knowledge compassion open-mindedness humbleness awareness-and-attitude
You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive.
Bryant McGillTags: cooperation humbleness submissive
All the seeds of Christianity -- of superstition, were sown in my mind and
cultivated with great diligence and care.
All that time I knew nothing of any science -- nothing about the other side -- nothing of the objections that had been urged against the blessed Scriptures, or against the perfect Congregational creed. Of course I had heard the ministers speak of blasphemers, of infidel wretches, of scoffers who laughed at holy things. They did not answer their arguments, but they tore their characters into shreds and demonstrated by the fury of assertion that they had done the Devil's work. And yet in spite of all I heard -- of all I read. I could not quite believe. My brain and heart said No.
For a time I left the dreams, the insanities, the illusions and delusions, the nightmares of theology. I studied astronomy, just a little -- I examined maps of the heavens -- learned the names of some of the constellations -- of some of the stars -- found something of their size and the velocity with which they wheeled in their orbits -- obtained a faint conception of astronomical spaces -- found that some of the known stars were so far away in the depths of space that their light, traveling at the rate of nearly two hundred thousand miles a second, required many years to reach this little world -- found that, compared with the great stars, our earth was but a grain of sand -- an atom – found that the old belief that all the hosts of heaven had been created for the benefit of man, was infinitely absurd.
Tags: science astronomy humbleness immensity
All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.
Habeeb AkandeTags: money humility arrogance humbleness bragging sweepers
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
Amy TanTags: future-plans humorist fury gemma-doyle humbleness keys johnny-depp judgmental-people gaara katniss-and-peeta alan-sheinwald
You must be humble, as it is one of the greatest [forms of] worship.
Ali ibn Abi TalibTags: inspirational humbleness
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.
François MagendieTags: science greatness passion discovery humbleness comparison louis-xiv chiffonier grandiose scavenger
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