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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility Quotes
Quotes on staying modest and teachable.
Humility is treated here as a discipline rather than a mood: older guidance holds that instruction and principle must shape a person before courtesy follows, while another line argues that real ability shines brighter when set beside modesty instead of pride.
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- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Qualities
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.
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- Nov 07, 2020