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honesty physically point
I think at some point I may be able to dominate, but honesty, I don't think I'm physically there yet and I don't want to go out there and say I am, when I'm really not. Maria Sharapova
honesty mind ornaments
A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves. Lord Shaftesbury
honesty integrity real
The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty . Richard P. Feynman
honesty men brutality
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. Richard J. Needham
honesty people brutality
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
honesty successful people
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. Richard Hofstadter
honesty cancer heart
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to. Truman Capote
honesty writing men
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism. Raymond Chandler
honesty pain loud-voices
All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. i could not have done what i have done as a writer had i been a gifted mathematician or physicist. honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice. William S. Burroughs
ignorance knowing doubt
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.
ignorance science thinking
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
ignorance reason-why consciousness
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Richard Hooker
ignorance weakness ill
God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.
ignorance intelligence misled
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. Richard Whately
ignorance evil genius
Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind. Richelle Mead
ignorance greek might
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." Tryon Edwards
ignorance law practice
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates. William Jennings Bryan
ignorance responsibility fundamentals
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. Woodrow Wilson
humility self people
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves! Richard Baxter
humility people serious
People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching. William Maxwell
humility years design
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage. William McDonough
humility mean thinking
Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all. Vance Havner
humility pride devil
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
humility pride modesty
Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound. W. S. Gilbert
humility catholic true-humility
True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility. Saint Francis de Sales
humility long generosity
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien. Wendell Berry
humility doubt arrogance
We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.