#modes

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#fearless #funny #modesty #funny

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#could #educated #education #highly #intelligence

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person. ↗

— Horace

#modest person #passes #person #reserved #silent

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#ever #hear #him #man #modest

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#ever #hear #modest #modest person #people

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. ↗

— Evan Hunter

#aspirations #award #broadway #i #like

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#alone #born #environment #growth #his

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#also #base #highest #i #i think

His modesty amounts to deformity. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#his #modesty

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath