Update June 6, 2010:
Humble - Having a feeling of insignificance, inferiority, subservience, etc.
Humility - Modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
Although related derivations, humble as used below is distinguished as support for an individual's creative ideas and designs in debate.
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From Einstein: His Life and Universe, p432 (America)
“What makes the new arrival devoted to this country is the democratic trait among the people…No one humbles himself before another person or class.”
This was a function of the right of the individuals to say and think what they pleased, a trait that had always been important to Einstein. In addition, the lack of stifling traditions encouraged more creativity of the sort he had relished as a student.
“American youth has the good fortune not to have its outlook troubled by outworn traditions.”
