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“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both activities produce a sense of awe and a curious mixture of humility and arrogance in their practitioners. All great scientists are inspired by the subtlety and beauty of the natural world that they are seeking to understand. Each new subatomic particle, every unexpected object, produces delight and wonderment. In constructing their theories, physicists are frequently guided by arcane concepts of elegance in the belief that the universe is intrinsically beautiful.”

“The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”

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Book:Revolt in 2100

Source: Revolt in 2100

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”

“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

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Book:The Lincoln treasury

Source: The Lincoln treasury

“The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”

Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan