#humility

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bring #disadvantages #enough #him #humility

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. ↗

— William Gurnall

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In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #edward-said #humility #london #palestine

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought. ↗

— George Eliot

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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations. ↗

— Ted Allen

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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ↗

— George Arliss

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Without humility there can be no humanity. ↗

— John Buchan

#humility #without

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. ↗