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Quotes About Humility

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
~ Mother Teresa
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
~ Perry Brass
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.
~ Carmen Ejogo
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
~ Sophie Swetchine
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
~ Mother Teresa
Remember your grandpa's saying: kill them with kindness.
~ C.B. Cook, Paralyzed Dreams
Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The most genuine acts of kindness are done without fanfare and when no one is looking.
~ Jason Pollock
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
~ Socrates
There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.
~ Laozi
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge.
~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
~ Robin Morgan
Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
~ Nicky Gumbel
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.
~ Luqman
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.
~ J. C. Ryle
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
~ George Santayana