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“He was top-heavy with conceit.”
“A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.”
“After Galileo, Einstein and even Freud, we try to hang onto a pathetic sort of significance on this planet and in this universe, that we are in some way more special than anything else. Our supreme...”
“Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, ...”
“Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.”
“I do not begin to think that I could possibly understand its inner-workings and the deepest truths of the cosmos with the 28 years that I have lived in Central New Jersey of the United States of Am...”
“The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.”
“People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.”
“… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.”
“You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you, be...”
“There is a fine line between humility and humiliation, and when Augustine’s critics, both loyal and disloyal, fault him for morbid self-criticism, they generally mean to imply that he has crossed t...”
“You don’t want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I’m here because I’ve been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that beca...”
“Think less of yourself and more of others…and others will think more of you. ~Jason Versey”
“There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility”
“We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of oth...”
“Don’t settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.”
“How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedest...”
“Don't underestimate the poor, because his soul treasures to Phoenix of Wits”
“The 'HIGHway' to peace is humility!”
“'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.”
