- Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them. Francis de Sales
- “The birth of a great idea comes through you, not from you.”
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Freequill
- “There is a popular saying in Igbo ‘Amakam ihe na Ozubulu, puta Nnewi buru ewu’. This means, you can be so enlightened in a particular place and when you step outside that place, you become ignorant.Again, the Igbos say “Agwo otu onye furu na agho eke” – A snake seen my one man is usually described as a Python!Always try to see what and how others are doing. It will help you stop wallowing in an imaginary self glorification!Remember to be humble.”
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Magnus Nwagu Amudi
- Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh! Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Most arguments are just battle of egos; a good teacher should also be a good learner.”
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Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
- “The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”
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Criss Jami,
Killosophy
- “It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can’t give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”
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Ann Druyan
- A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. Albert Einstein Click to tweet
- “It’s a team, really: the wilderness and us.”
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Per Espen Stoknes,
What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action
- If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect. Ted Turner
- “God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Lao Tzu Click to tweet
- “The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Think Great: Be Great!
- When we feel humiliated, the best reaction is humility. Simon Sinek
- I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. Carl Jung
- “At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I’m done, when I die and nature tears me up…”
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Ryan Holiday,
Ego Is the Enemy
- Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes
- “Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love – like wielding a sword with no hilt – it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- Even if you believe you are right, consider the possibility that you could be wrong. Joyce Meyer
- “What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I’m keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.”
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Donna Lynn Hope
- Everyone praises their own work (or possession), no matter how inferior it is. Russian proverb
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. Augustine of Hippo
- “The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.”
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Bryant McGill,
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. Diogenes Click to tweet
- “So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- “There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more doors you open to the mysteries, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.”
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Suzy Kassem,
Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “The ego is always looking for support because, essentially, it is very afraid and is constantly failing to give us the happiness it promises. It doesn’t know what it is doing. It has delusions of grandeur that unfailingly disappoint. It is a poor guide and companion compared to the spirit, albeit, a loud one. There is a beautiful grandeur in us. If we claim it, we would never again turn to the trifling and pathetic attempts of the ego at grandiosity.”
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Donna Goddard,
Love’s Longing
- “Whatever we have in the glory of man is “away”. Those are just not enough before we go “home” to the glory of God.”
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indonesia123
- “Knowledge is courage; understanding brings calmness and humility”
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do. Sidney Sheldon