Against Quote by Lynn Margulis

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

— Jean Vanier

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

— Jean Vanier

...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing…

— Joan Anderson

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react…

— Alfred Binet

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment…

— Simone Weil

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are…

— Agnes Repplier

“People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use…

— Gordon MacDonald

Arrogance is so ridiculous, no one has any reason to be so. Do you not realize how small you are in such a huge…

— Anonymous

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

— Paul de Rapin

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of…

— Joshua Loth Liebman