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    We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of
    ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of
    our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our
    naked skins.

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show me someone not full of herself and i'll show
you a hungry person

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show
you a hungry person

by Nikki Giovanni Found in: Humility Quotes,
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the read more

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about
anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to
verify my notions have only wasted my time.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Humility Quotes,
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.

I was not born for Courts or great affairs;
I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.

by Alexander Pope Found in: Humility Quotes,
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O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
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O be very sure
That no man will learn anything at all,
Unless he first will learn humility.

by Lord Lytton Found in: Humility Quotes,
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I read more

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the read more

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

by Rabindranath Tagore Found in: Humility Quotes,
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no
humility for a man to think read more

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no
humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though
it might rather puzzle him to do that.

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