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  • Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

    Humility   Self   Way  
  • I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

  • Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

    Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.134, Zondervan
  • One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

  • There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  • It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

    Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.239
  • Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.

  • False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

  • True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

  • Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

    Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.121, Open Road Media
  • An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.

    Mean   Humility   Humble  
    Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company
  • False humility is more insulting than open pride!

    Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
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