Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reading knowledge arrogance modesty
Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know
Tariq RamadanTags: knowledge humility modesty
If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!
Israelmore AyivorTags: truth honesty lost identity integrity liar lie security fame sense pride modesty food-for-thought sensitivity decency lose honour weather priority dignity obey truthful insecurity sensitive kinds modest insecure secure decent directive israelmore-ayivor kinds-of tell-the-truth diretion don-t-lie don-t-tell-lies
She'd been taught that pants were inappropriate for girls because they were immodest [...] If women's pants were suggestive, men's were equally so, and they revealed a great deal more of what was underneath them. There was almost always a bulge--you couldn't help but notice it--and if the pants were tight, you could see practically everything. And the way men were always drawing attention to it! Touching and scratching themselves with total unselfconsciousness, as if they were alone and not in public. She'd even seen Aidan do it a few times, absent-mindedly. And yet no one accused men of being improper or of encouraging sin by reminding women of what hung between their legs. She looked at herself in the mirror, irritated suddenly by the double standard. This was how her body was made. The fact that it was well made and encased in a pair of blue jeans didn't mean she was inviting anything.
Hillary JordanTags: equality gender men women fashion modesty clothing
There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: money poverty modesty poor broke
He appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes.
John Le CarréTags: taste modesty ostentation
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