#humility

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. ↗

— Ted Turner

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Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ↗

— Kong Fu Zi

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Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked. Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. ↗

— George Santayana

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