Quotes about hum
humility divine infancy
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
humanity vision pillars
Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs. Christopher Flavin
humiliating values
It's humiliating to have to explain your value. Christine Vachon
humility mirrors understanding
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon
humanity thank-god interest
I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit. George Washington Carver
humanity harmony interest
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. George Washington
humble modesty argument
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
humility men grace
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana
humorous america people
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. George Mikes
humorous japan united-states
Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.
humorous russia attention
In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
humorous japan resent
The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
humorous rights japan
The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.
humorous soul england
The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.
humorous israel airports
Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
humorous gay night
If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are nearer in spirit to a YMCA than to dens of iniquity.
humorous israel tears
Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
humorous israel insane
'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'
humorous israel language
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
humorous cutting russia
When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony; but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : "We are not amused".
humility virtue
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
humorous suffering today
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
humble men done
Good work is not done by 'humble' men G. H. Hardy
humble eye hard-work
Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.
humanity abstract humanitarianism
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
humble math two
But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
humanity christianity antichrist
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. Friedrich Nietzsche
humility curls morality
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
humility
Humility has the toughest hide.
humble passion men
But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence. Franklin Pierce
humble providence national-security
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
humility rivers giving
I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple. Frantz Fanon
humility pride men
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. Franz Grillparzer