Tag: humility
12 quotes
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we...
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
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When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.
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1. There's more than one way to do something 2. The hate will come at the same rate as the love 3. Do smaller loads of laundry 4. Being vulnerable means taking off our armor 5. Go where the energy goes 6. It's not all about you 7. Expect...
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All models are wrong; some models are useful.
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I know that I know nothing. This is the first step we all must take in order to learn something.
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The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies
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The most outstanding scientific discovery of the 20th century is not the radio or television, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those that know the most about it can appreciate how little is known about it. The last word in...
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When in due course Charon ferries me across the Styx and everyone is telling everyone else what a rotten writer I was, I hope at least one voice will be heard piping up, 'But he did take trouble.’
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Humility amounts to an understanding that the world is not divided into good and bad people, but rather it is made up of all manner of individuals, each broken in their own way, each caught up in the common human struggle and each having the...