#humility

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. ↗

— St. Vincent de Paul

#lies #pride #truth #humility

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#humility

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#denial #facing #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

I can be humbler than anyone. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#humility #humor #irony #humor

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe. ↗

— David F. Wells

#humility #attitude

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

#humility #intellectual #less #more #nor

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

— Simone Weil

#else #genius #humility #nothing #real

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

#humility #necessary #other #veil

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding