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  1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot

    You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humilty more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection!
    book-quoteperfectionhumilityridiculous

  2. Cornel West _ Race Matters

    To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.
    book-quotehumility

  3. Bill Bryson _ In a Sunburned Country

    She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.
    book-quotehumilityeducationmaturation

  4. Bill Bryson _ One Summer: America, 1927

    It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.
    book-quotefamehumilitysolitude

  5. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.
    book-quotehumilitymagnanimity

  6. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.
    book-quotematurityhumilityeducation

  7. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it.
    book-quoteself-awarenesshumility

  8. Joel Salatin _ The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs:

    I liken modern scientists to conquistadors. They have no idea what they're dealing with, but they're going to conquer it, whatever it is --- all in the name of God. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to scientific discovery and exploration. I love this stuff.What I despise is reckless disregard for how little we know. We create trans fats with nary a question about whether they're good for us or not. We develop a food pyramid with carbohydrates on the bottom and thirty years later we realize it created an obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic. It should give us all pause that we would be a much healthier nation if the government had never told us how to eat.
    book-quotesciencehumilityhealthy-living

  9. George Saunders _ The Braindead Megaphone

    A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the china shop it's blundering into. And it knows that no matter how well prepared it is -- no matter how ruthlessly it has held its projections up to intelligent scrutiny -- the place it is headed for is going to very different from the place it imagined. The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.
    book-quotehumilitymoralityethics

  10. Andrew Solomon _ The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of

    While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.
    book-quotetruthunderstandinghumility

  11. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Left Hand of Darkness

    To learn which questions are unanswerable, and : this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
    book-quoteknowledgehumilitycertainty

  12. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
    book-quotehumblehumilityexistentialism
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