Quotes About Humility

Be knowledgeable but humble. Be wise and simple.

It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge.

The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.

I am as knowledgeable as Socrates I know nothing.

Our knowledge is so limited that often we are not much better than an ape.

We often feel proud of our knowledge even when it is filled with emptiness.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.' – Cherise

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

With intelligence and humility and dedication as our ammunition, we can wage the peace throughout the world with a strength beyond armies, destroying nothing except hate and greed and distrust.

I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.