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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.
knowing useless kind
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? Carlos Castaneda
knowing people trying
I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not. Agnes Varda
knowing genius sometimes
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop. Charles de Gaulle
knowing psychology may
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. Charles Dickens
knowing odds mind
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
knowing understanding benefits
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen. Brian Cox
knowing able kind
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. Brian Eno
knowing wish world
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals. Dmitri Mendeleev
knowing done terrain
At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering. David Allen
way awareness force
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.
way like-you
You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
way human-nature dont-change
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
way looks spirituality
Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
way environment has-beens
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. Carl Andre
way study dropping
I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping. Agnes de Mille
way
Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness. Agnes Martin
way born
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.
way sometimes innocent
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.