Best False Humility Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because it locks us in a victim state of keeping our light turned down, denying who we really are and silently begging for permission to simply show up as ourselves in the world. But there is good news. This is a jail whose lock is broken. We can walk free whenever we know the truth, and by so doing we show others an example of an end to madness. An example of freedom.”

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Author:Jacob Nordby

“May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.”

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Author:Joyce Rachelle

“False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.”

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Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“False humility is better than no humility at all.”

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Author:Paul Krassner

“King David in Psalm 37 writes "Take delight in the Giver, and He will give you the desires of your heart," intimating that the secret to finding our way in the world is more about cooperating with God than appeasing God. That the Giver of life is also the Giver of our desires, which means that life has an invitational co-creative nature to it... Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”

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Book:Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

Source: Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“I often use alcohol as an artificial check on my skills.”

Excuses False Humility

Book:In a Sunburned Country

Source: In a Sunburned Country

“I lived in Boston until last year,” he said, in a falsely low-key way, because “Boston” was code for Harvard (otherwise he would say MIT or Tufts or anywhere else), just as another woman said, “I was in New Haven,” in that coy manner that pretended not to be coy, which meant that she had been at Yale.”

Ivy League False Humility

Book:Americanah

Source: Americanah

“It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.”

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Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”

“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”

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Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.”

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Book:The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”

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Book:Rise of the Evening Star

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.”

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Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.”

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Author:Radhanath Swami

“An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.”

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Book:The Seat of the Soul

Source: The Seat of the Soul

“Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.”

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Author:Arthur Dobrin

“Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly second-guessing myself. My mind is filled with 'yes, buts,' 'so whats?' and other skeptical rejoinders. I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples. Age has not made me wiser, except maybe in retrospect.”

“I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.”

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Author:Julie Delpy