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Humility Quotes by Simone Weil
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- Humility is attentive patience.
- Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
- Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
- One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
- Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the…
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- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
- God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to… — Teresa of Avila