Quotes with humble

  • Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
  • The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
  • Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

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  • William Cowper Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • William Cowper Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • John Madden Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Abraham Cahan Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Camille Pissarro Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Alexander Pope By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Golda Meir Don't be humble, you're not that great.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Golda Meir Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I'm still scared of my dad.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
    The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (1994) 314
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Oldfield I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Charles Dickens I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Maynard Keynes If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Kahlil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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