Quotes with humility

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  • Hosea Ballou The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Saadi The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Miller The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • C. J. Mahaney The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Gene Brown The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Edith Hamilton There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • James Lendall Basford There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world.
    Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • Sir William Osler There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Robert Burton They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • William Ellery Channing True love is the parent of humility.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Jonathan Swift Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
    Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1830)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Oscar Levant What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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