Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

C. S. Lewis

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Abba Eban

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.

Aaron Swartz

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Alan K. Simpson

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

Charlie Haden

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

Alan King

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

Charlotte Bronte

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Charlotte Bronte

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

Charles Dickens

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

Charles Stross

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Charles Spurgeon

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Charles Spurgeon

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

Agnetha Faltskog

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

Bryan Ferry

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Ashley Greene

When I met [Robert Pattinson], he literally didn't make any impression on me. He's quiet, and he's not very outgoing.

Brian Blessed

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet.

Charlie Munger

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

Ai Weiwei

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Bob Newhart

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Ed Begley, Jr.

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.