False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
– Criss Jami
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- I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. – Criss Jami
- A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best. – Criss Jami
- It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist’s worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance. – Criss Jami
- We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. – Al Gore
- Premature independence is the daughter of conceit. – Idries Shah
- We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. – Dejan Stojanovic
- It is a mother’s noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child’s suffering and do it for him. – Kadiatou Diallo
- What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? – Henry David Thoreau
- …But even then you have to reckon with a criminal’s chief vice.”What is that?” Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail. – Agatha Christie
- Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief. – Debasish Mridha
- Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- If you haven’t found yourself yet, it’s difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders! – Israelmore Ayivor
- The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion. – Errol Anthony Smythe
- Selflessness is humility. … humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free. – Jeff Wilson
- Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all -” humility cares. – Bryant McGill
- Gratitude is the heart of humility, and humility is the path to peace, love, and understanding. – Justin Young
- Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you. – Erica Goros
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- Authors are supernatural beings. They exist in the world, also in worlds they create, and in the worlds of other authors they read. – Lani Brown
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- What happens outside you, and what happens inside you – happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds. – Manoj Arora
- Don’t confuse one leader’s bluster for muster or another leader’s meekness for weakness. – Orrin Woodward
- Do not mistake a leader’s meekness for weakness. – Orrin Woodward
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- A fool mistakes meekness for weakness and a quiet tongue for an idle mind. – RA Mathis
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