"Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride."
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"No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience."
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"Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home."
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"In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."
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"In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates."
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"It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity."
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"In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me.""
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"Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?"
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"No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other."
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"A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility."
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"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
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"I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility."
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"What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility."
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"Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone."
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"We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him."
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"Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation."
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"I have sounded the very base-string of humility."
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"Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom."
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"Essence of humility is unity."
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"Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna."
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