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Modest Quotes

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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
Galileo Galilei

To demonstrate kindness, we must always be willing to admit our lack of knowledge with the sagacious, inventive, and unassuming words 'I am not sure.'
Authors on Modest Quotes: Claudia Roden James Joyce Oliver Goldsmith David Starkey Horace George Gershwin Richelle Mead William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley John Dryden Malcolm Gladwell Craig Venter Friedrich Schiller Nachman of Breslov Drew Brees Kristen Bell James Goldman Soren Kierkegaard Winston Churchill Philip Johnson John Galt Malcolm Muggeridge Allen W. Wood E. O. Wilson Friedrich Nietzsche H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Deepak Chopra Grace Paley Steven Pressfield William Cowper Plautus Mason Cooley Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Paul Cezanne

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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Orson Welles

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True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.
Claudia Roden

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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
Yohji Yamamoto

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No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
John Galt

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If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Philip Johnson

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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide

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A modest woman has good children.
Nachman of Breslov

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Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.
Malcolm Gladwell

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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
James Joyce

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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Paul Theroux

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Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
Horace

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It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.
Soren Kierkegaard

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Modest humility is beauty's crown.
Friedrich Schiller

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To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.
Grace Paley

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The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
Jeremy Bentham

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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
Craig Venter

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I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
David Starkey

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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver Goldsmith

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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill

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My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.
Jason Gray

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I had a very modest upbringing.
Balthazar Getty

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Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!
Steven Wright

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It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try...you are all shite!
Noel Gallagher

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I'm a very modest person.
Drew Brees

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I'm much too modest a person.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.
Mason Cooley

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It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Plautus

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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
Tacitus

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The annoying thing about being modest is that you can't brag about it.
Gene Brown

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A modest man never talks of himself.
Jean de la Bruyere

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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
Charles Caleb Colton

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Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

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The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.
George Gershwin

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Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.
William Shakespeare

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The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
John Dryden

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Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.
James Goldman

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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
Laozi

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I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.
Ronnie Dunn

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We have to be more modest in what we claim.
Kenneth Arrow

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Jill was tall and slim, like most Moroi. With that figure came a modest chest. Angeline's chest...was not so modest.
Richelle Mead

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I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.
Kristen Bell

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The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.
E. O. Wilson

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Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.
Allen W. Wood

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Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.
Deepak Chopra