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“Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.”

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William Tenn

William Tenn, born on May 9, 1920, was an influential American science fiction author known for his unique sense of humor and profound philosophical insights. His works have had a significant impact on the science fiction genre. more

“In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.”

Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

“We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.”

Hands Lying Evil Humility Urges Citizenship

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.”

World Humans Stories Life Is Order Humility Reflection Locals Rational Human Life Arbitrary Select Glitter Momentary Human Knowledge

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.”

Reason Whole Humility Ocean Thrown Glimpse Fragments Whole Truth

Book:The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

“Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.”

May Forever Humility Ears Skepticism Mistaken Whispering

Author:D. J. Grothe

“A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.”

Humility Institutions Refuse Transformed

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.”

Thinking Humility Blind Curiosity Stance Wishful Thinking Blind Faith

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.”

Soul Enough Speak Humility Quiet

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.”

Years Humans Heart States Political Evil Lines Party Class Humility Good And Evil Human Heart Overwhelmed Political Parties Separating Gulags

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.”

Moments Humility Flexibility

Author:Bruce Lee

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