"Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them."

-- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

#Humility Quotes #Wish Quotes #Littles Quotes

“A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.”
“It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.”

Source : Tig Notaro (2016). “I'm Just a Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany”, p.184, Pan Macmillan
“In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.”
“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.”
“I never thought I would be divorced.”

Source : "The (Real) Governator". Interview with Lisa Depaulo, www.gq.com. December 13, 2011.
“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
“A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.”
“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”

Source : "Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance".

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