modestly-minded

Updated: February 19, 2026

John of himself, or it was the power which inspired him, manifesting itself in an independent form. Which of these it was, or whether neither of these, but a vision of other powers, or a dream, of which neither the prophet himself knew, nor can any other person yet know, the interpretation, I suppose no modestly-minded and accurate thinker would now take upon himself to decide.

John Ruskin - Lectures on Art: Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870