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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

Rachel Carson

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

William Menninger

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

St. Augustine of Hippo

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Ralph W. Sockman

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Max Beerbohm

Be pure and simple, and love all because all are one. Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.Honesty will guard you against false modesty and will give you the strength of true humility. Spare no pains to help others. Seek no other reward than the gift of Divine Love.

Meher Baba

I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth. By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

Thomas Merton

Humility is pride in Godî

Austin O\'Malley

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Thomas Fuller

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Vanna Bonta

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.

Confucius

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Rick Warren

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Alfred Austin

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Abba Eban

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.

Mark L. Mika

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

Aldo Leopold†

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

Simone Weil

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Robin Morgan

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Arthur Helps

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Alfred Austin

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

Albert Einstein

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

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