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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

One may be humble out of pride.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Don’t believe your own publicity. You can’t; you’ll start thinking that you’re better than you are.

I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man’s estate.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.