Quotes of: False-modesty Keyword

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.

Jack Reynor

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Jeremy Collier

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Ezra Taft Benson

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Wilfred Burchett

In this, then, lies their power of understanding--understanding, without words, what is authentic or inauthentic. Thus it was the grimaces, the histrionisms, the false gestures and, above all, the false tones and cadences of the voice, which rang fal...

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

The False Principle of Our Education

So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly. "Of course I will, you idiot," I said with a shriek, and threw myself into his arms.

The False Princess

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.

Leo Tolstoy

Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Malcolm Gladwell

The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

John Bradshaw

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a fals...

George Gaylord Simpson

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

D. H. Lawrence

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

John Harvey Kellogg

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with...

Norbert Wiener

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

Conversation with the Earth

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Rem Koolhaas