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Humility Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
- It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
- Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
- Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties…
- It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws
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- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
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- Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. — Teresa of Avila
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- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
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