I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be…

“I am proud of (knowing) who I am.”

— G Rodrigues

New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.

— Katharine Brush

When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who…

— Tyler Cowen

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases…

— Alfred Tarski

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

— Gustave Flaubert

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

— Maya Angelou

Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th'…

— William Shakespeare

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of…

— Claude Monet

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require…

— Anonymous

You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.

— Anna Netrebko

He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

— Barbara Wagner

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have…

— David Bowie

Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

— P. J. O'Rourke