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  • The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

    "American Federation of Labor (AFL) v. American Sash & Door Co., 335 U.S. 538". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 3, 1949.
  • I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

    Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1997), September 28, 1949.
  • It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

    Humility   Self   Ideas  
  • Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

    Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.200, Oxford University Press, USA
  • We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.

    Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com
  • The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards 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
  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  • If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.

    Prayer   Selfish   Silly  
  • The problem, once again, as in all sciences is the attitude of the mind that is dealing with whatever field. The problem is not philosophy but the lack of intellectual humility. It is when reason becomes arrogant that we lose track. But intellectual humility with science: this is spirituality - this is the way we are with God. So we should not be scared and we must reconcile ourselves.

    Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com
  • Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.

    Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.10, Oxford University Press
  • I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

    God   Religious   Atheist  
    Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.
  • In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

    Humility   Power   Order  
    Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.128, Psychology Press
  • Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

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