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humility math reality
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss
humility pride vanity
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. C. S. Lewis
humility golf futility-of-life
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. Abba Eban
humility understanding quality
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. Aaron Swartz
humility heavy traffic
Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic. Alan K. Simpson
humility generosity quality
If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician. Charlie Haden
humility discovery design
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design. Charles Caleb Colton
humility greatness men
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
humility angel men
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.
greatness
There is greatness in everyone. Charlie Chaplin
greatness quality individual
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. Charles Sumner
greatness
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Charles de Gaulle
greatness france
France cannot be France without greatness.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
littles want said
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.
littles too-much may
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. Agnetha Faltskog
littles watches film
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. Agnes Varda
littles ethics common
Economics and ethics have little in common. Agnes Repplier
littles underestimate influence
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things Charles W. Chesnutt
littles
I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.
littles arcs knows
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
littles making-money easy
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. Charles Dickens
littles wealth rich
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.