“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Jane Austen
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Albert Einstein
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”
William Arthur Ward
“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.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”
Saint Augustine
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