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I like the scientific spirit--the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine--it always keeps the way beyond open--always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake--after a wrong guess.
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doubt
science
life
scientific
guess
certainty
skepticism
humble
evidence
mistake
ideas
surrender
thought
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Walt Whitman |
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
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abyss
risk
nature
learning
science
inspirational
preconceptions
open-minded
peace-of-mind
preparation
humble
facts
peace
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Thomas Huxley |
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Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ``What shall we eat?'' or ``What shall we drink?'' or ``What shall we wear?'' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. - Matthew 6:25-34
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life
importance
value
humble
scripture
worry
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Anonymous |
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
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humble
hubris
modesty
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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self-loathing
humble
existentialism
humility
self-realization
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Hermann Hesse |
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"I wouldn't give up being a Sentinel for the world. Or being the Apollyon. I rock." "Wow. You're so humble."
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seth-apollyon
humble
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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listen
full
humble
humility
learn
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Lloyd Alexander |
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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
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work
love
tasks
humble
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Louisa May Alcott |
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"They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I've watched you fight. It's not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they'd be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?"
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compassion
learning
inspiring
life-lessons
things-to-remember
george-r-r-martin
jon-snow
game-of-thrones
the-wall
humble
pride
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George R.R. Martin |
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Look. I know what I believe. It's in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
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faith
differences
humble
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Mitch Albom |
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A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.
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life
mercy
humble
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James Baldwin |
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There was nothing wrong with having an expensive home, nothing wrong at all. There's a pride in building something up, working hard to achieve something. But it shouldn't have been his manhood that increased with each new success, it should have been his heart. His success was like the witch in 'Hansel and Gretel' fairy tale: it fed him for all the wrong reasons, fattening him in all the wrong places. Dad deserved his success, he just needed a masterclass in humility. I could have done with one too. How special I thought I was in the silver Aston Martin in which he drove me to school some mornings. How special am I now, now that somebody bought it from a depot of reprocessed cars, for a fraction of the price. How special indeed
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wealth
humble
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Cecelia Ahern |
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Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to identify with the poor, but what is this if not populism? It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.
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humble
islam
populism
prince
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Sometimes I feel like I'm rescuing a drowning man, and I only have time to rise to the surface for one gasp of air before I go back down again. There is an exhilaration to it, a high born only partly of exhilaration, and I find myself almost frighteningly alive. There is nothing like calamity for refreshing the moment. Ironically, the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with the elastic gone, the days down around my ankles. Now there is an intensity to the humblest things- buying paper towels, laundry detergent, dog food, keeping the household running in Rich's absence.
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underwear
humble
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Abigail Thomas |
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We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.
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gratitude
happiness-quotes
humble
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