Quotes about humility
humility men engineering
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations. Fred Brooks
humility men solitude
Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man. Franz Kafka
humility proud would-be
Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.
humility fools-day aggravation
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. George Orwell
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The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility. Felix Frankfurter
humility pride blessing
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. Ezra Taft Benson
humility son winning
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. Euripides
humility virtue reason
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. Francis Quarles
humility men giving
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi
humility pride sometimes
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility. Francis Chan
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
humility hypocrite transition
In some sense we are all hypocrites in transition. Erwin McManus
humility self way
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . . Flannery O'Connor
humility humble contentment
True humility is contentment. Henri Frederic Amiel
humility men and-love
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.
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They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud. Robert Burton
humility proud
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud
humility mercy understand
You must understand in all humility that you are at the mercy of the weather,
humility thinking people
I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility. Jared Leto
humility good-woman needs
-You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.- Janet Evanovich
humility mind noble
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. Jane Porter
humility eye men
Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men. Ernst Moritz Arndt
humility broken people
I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work. Moby
humility compassion being-hated
I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.
humility arrogance virtue
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. Milton Friedman
humility ephemeral needs
The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth. Ken Auletta
humility humble deeds
True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either. Julian Baggini
humility humble trying
Do not try to be humble: learn humility. Idries Shah
humility weather funeral
It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather. Harry S Truman
humility home world
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing. J. M. Coetzee
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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. J. K. Rowling
humility mma world
Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself. Greg Jackson
humility self names
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction Georg Brandes