False modesty Quote by Vilhjalmur Stefansson Download Open image “False modesty is better than none.” — Vilhjalmur Stefansson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare False modesty Humility Modesty
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others. — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Modesty, if you consider it, is the most unforgivable sort of falsehood: it's a lie that does damage to no one but yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
“There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Besides, I'm not going to let you go anywhere alone- you'll have every male in the vicinity pouncing on you." "Don't be silly," Annabelle… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“I know that, like many other writers, I have many faults, for I am the first to be dissatisfied with myself . . .… — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own… — Max Shulman Copy Share Image
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
