Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'."
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Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest."
Philip Johnson
Architect
"If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect."
Andre Gide
Novelist
"True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest."
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist, Author
"Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects."
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"Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well."
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"It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not."
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"Modest humility is beauty's crown."
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"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."
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"Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!"
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"The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it."
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"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent."
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"Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste."
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"Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought."
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"It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery."
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"Be merciful, moderate, and modest."
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"Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked."
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"All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer."
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"One gets on better in life if one is not over modest."
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