Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a sense of worthlessness or the kind of timidity that caused some people to be cheated and bullied all their lives. The virtue of humility, Ratti said, was merely the faculty of intelligence operating properly "The man of wisdom, " Ratti explained once, "fears only one man on earth. Do you know who that is?" And when everybody guessed wrong – some said the Pope, some said King Ferdinand – Ratti said, "The man of wisdom fears himself. He knows who it is who tells him the most plausible lies, the lies he wants to believe. . Robert Anton Wilson
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
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Margery Williams Bianco
Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.
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Tom Hiddleston
Life is a long lesson in humility.
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J.m. Barrie
LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
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Unknown
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
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Eckhart Tolle
More Quotes By Robert Anton Wilson
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
