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Humility

«There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.»
«Next time you go out for dinner, have a look around the table and if everyone is on your payroll, the chances are you have become a prick.»
«Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.»
«The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.»
Author: Piet Mondrian | About: Artist, Humility
«Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real»
Author: Thomas Merton | About: Humility, Pride | Keywords: artificial, humility
«Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.»
«There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Humility | Keywords: averse, modesty, resolved
«One may be humble out of pride.»
«Our best thoughts come from others.»
«The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Humility, Right

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