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Goodreads Choice Awards 2024 Opening Round

Humbling Quotes

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Susan Sontag
“I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.”
― Susan Sontag
tags: curiosity, humbling, knowledge
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Patrick Rothfuss
“My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
tags: arrogance, arrogance-and-attitude, humbling, pride
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Olaf Stapledon
“In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker
tags: humbling, impermanece, life, stars
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“Our work calls on us to confront, with our patients and within ourselves, extraordinary human experiences. This confrontation is profoundly humbling in that at all times these experiences challenge the limits of our humanity and our view of the world...”
― John P. Wilson, Countertransference in the Treatment of PTSD
tags: countertransgerence, humbling, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, therapists, trauma, traumatic, traumatic-experiences, world-view, world-views
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Shannon L. Alder
“Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.”
― Shannon L. Alder
tags: conscience, cruelty, don-t-harm-others, evil, games, giving-false-hope, humbling, lack-of-compassion, lack-of-forgiveness, lack-of-kindness, lies, mind, never-forget, responsibility, responsible, sin, tears, uncaring, what-you-did
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A.J. Darkholme
“We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
tags: achievements, better-yourself, expertise, goals, humbling, humility, improvement, lead, leader, leadership, leading, learning, others, people, potential, self-improvement, teaching
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“Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
tags: aging, aging-gracefully, elderly-people, gracefulness, humbling, humility, maturation, stages-of-life
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Bryant McGill
“In the inconceivably vast and humbling unknown called "everything", is a supreme inter-communication called, spirituality.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
tags: humbling, inconceivable, spirituality, supremacy, vastness
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George Orwell
“Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed.”
― George Orwell
tags: depressing, dystopian, humbling, true
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Ivan Brunetti
“Our dedication- devotion- to craft should enlighten as it humbles us.”
― Ivan Brunetti, Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice
tags: artist-dedication, artists-life, dedication, humbling
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Emma Wildes
“The implied trust was humbling. He didn't deserve it, but then again, he wouldn't betray it either.”
― Emma Wildes, Our Wicked Mistake
tags: betrayals, deserve, humbling, trust
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Louise Penny
“Don't be so sure," said Gamache. "It's a little humbling to realize the pedestal isn't quite so high after all."

Brebeuf chuckled. "Welcome to earth, Armand. It's a little dirty down here.”
― Louise Penny, A Great Reckoning
tags: human, humbling
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Carl Sagan
“And after the Earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it is burned t a crisp or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being- and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
tags: humbling
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Hagir Elsheikh
“Life has a way of humbling us, and anytime I felt I mastered this game of life, it proved me wrong. So, my advice is to live this life to the fullest and make your existence count.”
― Hagir Elsheikh, Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
tags: humbling, life, live-life-to-the-fullest, make-your-life-count
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Bryant McGill
“Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
tags: gifts, humbling, life, meditation
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“How do I know I’ve won, when I’ve never lost?”
― Caden T
tags: defeat, failure, humbling, inspirational, learning, winning
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“The greatest spiritual teacher is the eye.”
― Psixaristw
tags: awe, colossal, cosmos, depth, great, humbling, massive, realization, sheerness, view
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Robert J. Tiess
“I'm just a student, one who sees / the paradox of Socrates, / to understand I do not know / and yet enlighten as I go.”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems
tags: enlightenment, humbled, humbling, humility, learning, philosophy, poems, poetry, socrates
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T.A. White
“There was nothing quite like knowing there was little you could do while the people you loved suffered. It made you feel powerless and small. It was humbling in the worst sort of way.”
― T.A. White, Secrets Bound By Sand
tags: humbling, love, powerless, suffering
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