Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Modesty

Quotes about: Modesty

• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doubt, Fool, Modesty

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Honesty, Hypocrite

• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
  whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Humility, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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