#humble

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. ↗

— Piet Mondrian

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The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

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The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. ↗

— Joe Orton

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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man. ↗

— Mike Norton

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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

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The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#arrogance #arrogant #boasting #bragging #challenges

A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer; for he recognizes the truth ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#life #truth #life

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element. ↗

— Ernst Haeckel

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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#hubris #humble #modesty #ego