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If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you. Anand Mahindra

Humble, Humility, Some

All generalizations are false, including this one. - Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain

Funny, Including

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom, Ignorance, Beware

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? George Sand

Door, Shame, Reason

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. James A. Forbes

Mind, Stereotypes, Surface

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. Michelle Obama

Invest, About, Your

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov

Through, Been, Constant

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life. Wayne Dyer

Idea, Very, Influential

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates

Soul, Words, Themselves

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. - Benjamin Franklin

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. Benjamin Franklin

Shadow, Shines, Attend

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. - Rumi

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. Rumi

Truth, Which, Brings

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking. Wayne Dyer

Stress, Engaged, Actual

A hair divides what is false and true. - Omar Khayyam

A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam

Hair, True, Divides

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. - William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. William Shakespeare

Face, Hide, Doth

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin? John Quincy Adams

Principle, Sources, Very

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. Sai Baba

Which, Ideals, Influenced

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass

Rather, Prefer, Abhorrence

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Pope Francis

Humble, Be Humble, Prophet

Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope. Robert Kennedy

Counts, Weeks, Terrorists

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche

Every Day, Which, Least

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C. S. Lewis

Important, Moderately

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. Camille Claudel

Mood, Greatest Pleasure

I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values. Lenny Bruce

World, Doctor, Comedian

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks

Cut, Indifference, Pattern

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Down, Against, Brought

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare

Night, Be True, Own

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