What does this quote by Rabindranath Tagore mean?

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

We are closest to greatness not when we puff ourselves up, but when we are genuinely humble. Humility, not pride, ennobles us.

Bengali poet and the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature, who wrote on faith, freedom, and joy.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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