Humbler Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert…
— Ron Suskind
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Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these…
— Anna Kamienska
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in…
— Germaine Greer
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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding…
— Tehmina Durrani
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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his…
— Mark Twain
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If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
— John Vanbrugh
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When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put…
— William Wordsworth
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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they…
— Samuel Richardson
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Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red…
— Dave Eggers
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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will…
— Aldous Huxley
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You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community…
— Edmund Burke
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Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults…
— Paul Brunton
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,…
— Aldo Leopold
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I can be humbler than anyone.
— George R. R. Martin
Who Wrote These Humbler Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Humbler Quotes as follows: