A Quote by Kenneth Arrow

We have to be more modest in what we claim.

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Kenneth Arrow
American - Economist
August 23, 1921 - February 21, 2017

I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

Brett Favre

I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.

David Heyman

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

Guy Debord

It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.

Christopher Hitchens

We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.

Karl Popper

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

Errol Morris

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Jean-Paul Sartre

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

Charles Dickens

I'll never forget my first fur. It was a modest little stole. Modest? People thought I was wearing anchovies.

Phyllis Diller

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Jules Renard

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Winston Churchill

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

Joseph Addison

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.

Timothy Keller

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

Grace Paley

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

Adolf Hitler

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