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• Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is contented to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

  John Selden

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• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  Harold Warner

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• False humility is more insulting than open pride!

  Brandon Mull

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• True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• A humble man speaks not of his own humility.

  Jeremy Aldana

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• It’s a kind of arrogance to be so certain you’re past redemption.

  Ellis Peters

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• To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

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• Don’t underestimate the poor, because his soul treasures to Phoenix of Wits.

  Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

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  Atheism is a way of humility. It’s to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

  André Comte-Sponville

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  Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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• I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like – another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn’t the best P.A.

  Octavia Spencer

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• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

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• It is harder to be a good winner than a good loser.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

  Thomas Merton

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• I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

  Jonathan Swift

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• We are ashamed of everything that is real about us: ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of  our naked skins.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

  Edmund Burke

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• Shame is Pride’s cloak.

  William Blake

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• With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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