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164 Humbly quotes by 136 unique authors
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it.…
— A A Milne
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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
— Blaise Pascal
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A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do…
— John Adams
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual…
— Ayn Rand
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A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the…
— Aldo Leopold
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I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am…
— Rick Bass
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Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things…
— Richard Yates
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Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.
— A A Milne
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that…
— J D Salinger
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Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill,…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with…
— Jane Austen
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most…
— Lewis Hyde
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Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a…
— Margaret Mitchell
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One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
— Jonathan Edwards
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Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an…
— Paul Brunton
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Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.
— James Joyce
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to…
— Jonathan Edwards
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